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->'''Ross:''' Help me out here. When you come out of the "brain transplant," you are going to be ''her?''\\'''Joey:''' Yes, but in Drake Remoray's body. Why is this so hard for you to get? I thought you were a scientist!-->-- ''Series/{{Friends}}'', "The One With Joey's New Brain"

A character has undergone a complete physical sex change, usually through magic or AppliedPhlebotinum. Depending on the medium, genre, and storyline, this may be a one-time temporary change, a recurring change (causing the character to jump the gender line often), [[FirstLawOfGenderBending or even permanent.]]

Sometimes it's the same person, sometimes it's a man and woman sharing one body. If a man and a woman ''swap'' bodies, it's a variant of FreakyFridayFlip. Male-to-female transformations tend to vastly outnumber the opposite when this trope is in play.

The trope can be played many different ways. It might be PlayedForLaughs, PlayedForDrama, or even played for horror if LossOfIdentity or an unusual amount of {{Squick}} is involved.

For Laws related to this trope, see the FirstLawOfGenderBending, the SecondLawOfGenderBending, and the ThirdLawOfGenderBending. ManIFeelLikeAWoman, DifferentForGirls, and AttractiveBentGender are also common enough that they approach the level of Law.

Contrast with RuleSixtyThree and GenderFlip, two tropes generally related to "alternate" versions of characters who, InUniverse, have ''always'' had the "opposite" gender from what the audience would expect. ShesAManInJapan is basically "GenderFlip via Localization," where ExecutiveMeddling results in a character's sex being changed to meet the perceived needs of another market. But as with the aforementioned tropes, GenderBender characters who previously wore a distinctive outfit may wear a GenderedOutfit, tailored to their new sex, after the change.

For this trope's impact on relationships, see UnsettlingGenderReveal, JumpingTheGenderBarrier and GenderBenderFriendship.

Contrast with {{Transgender}} and {{Hermaphrodite}}, which are real-life phenomena (though on rare occasions, a Gender Bender character might ''turn into'' a hermaphrodite instead of, strictly speaking, the "opposite sex"; also, GenderBender stories can intersect with transgender characters, by having someone transition unexpectedly by magic, or have the experience of being gender-changed bring a transgender character out of denial. Not to mention all the possibilities of using GenderBender stories as metaphors for transgender identity...). Also contrast with EasySexChange, which deals with idealized but ''somewhat'' realistic takes on the {{Transgender}} experience. Not related to WasOnceAMan.

If the character belongs to a species that does this as regular thing, see SexShifter.

Note that the definition of "gender" being used here (and in most Wiki/TVTropes trope names) refers to both a character's ''physical sex'' and their [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_identity gender identity]] with the female version of the character almost always being more extensively gender-coded than the male version. This may lead to a SobriquetSexSwitch.

Finally, in accordance with the aforementioned Laws, as well as [[AuthorAppeal certain]] [[MostWritersAreMale demographic]] [[{{Fanservice}} reasons]], male-to-female changes are ''far'' more likely than female-to-male ones, and the rare female-to-male ones are usually less susceptible to the Three Laws of Gender Bending. TruthInTelevision to some degree, as the ratio of real life trans women to trans men is roughly 3:1, but the ratio in fiction is still a much higher number.

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[[folder:Advertising]]* In one Mountain Dew commercial, a guy finds out his car remote can transform objects. Since he just broke up with his girlfriend, he conveniently uses it to turn his best friend [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlR_fwcU3MU into a hot girl.]] The implications of said commercial are very disturbing.* A series of Italian "Coloured is better" laundry commercials play this as a joke. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQQs3nl0LcY The first]] has a woman throwing her pencil-necked white partner into the washing machine after he fails to seduce her, and he emerges as a sexy, muscled black man. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0ZDMexGO-k The second]] has her partner throw ''her'' in after comparing her to models in a gentleman's magazine -- [[AttractiveBentGender and she emerges as a sexy, muscled black man]].* There are [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW6ZXHWvaGc two]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlrgAGiv9ZY commercials]] for Snickers, each featuring a rather cranky Aretha Franklin amongst a group of young men. Annoyed by her, they tell her that every time she gets hungry, she turns into a diva, and offer her a Snickers bar. After taking the first bite, it turns out that she is a young man too, who ''literally'' turned into a diva. In fact, the campaign started with a Super Bowl [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18ya0-OZ58s spot]] where a guy turns into Creator/BettyWhite.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Anime & Manga]]* ''Manga/Asuka Hybrid'' A feminine boy with an ambiguous name is accidentally put in the girls dorm. He has a roommate who turns out to be a gay crossdresser who also looks feminine. Him believing that he can't stay in the girls dorm as a boy runs away and accidentally saves a witch from the police who wants to grant him a wish. She misunderstands the wish and turns him into a female. The entire series is him trying to find her again and change his gender back.* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' is wholly built around InvoluntaryShapeshifting, with the main character being an example of this trope. ''Both'' of Ranma's forms have their own LoveDodecahedron, though most pairings are unrequited. Particularly for the female [[FanNickname "Ranma-chan"]], who has no interest in guys (because his mind stays that of a straight male).* A surprising number of examples exist in Rumiko Takahashi's first major series ''Anime/UruseiYatsura'':** In episode 68 "The Groom's Name Is Ryuunosuke" the alien princess Kurama tries to use a gender changing cannon on the resident [[WholesomeCrossdresser Wholesome Crossdresser]] into a real man, unfortunately through a series of mishaps Ataru is turned into a female instead.** In episode 120 “Revenge of the Protozoa: Poolside Rampage,” Ataru and Mendo get sent back to the dawn of time while Adam and Eve are send to the future. The cosmic forces that be apparently decide that the human race must continue and Mendo is turned into a female. Ataru seems a little too pleased.** In episode 172 “An Importunate Happiness Salesman Blue Bird,” Ataru gains the power to change anyone he touches into a woman, for perverted purposes of course. Conversely, Mr. Fujinami gains the power to turn anyone he touches into a man in order to try and turn his daughter Ryuunosuke into the son he always wanted. Hijinks ensue.* In the manga ''Manga/AmeNochiHare'', there are not just one, but ''five'' protagonists who were transformed into girls after a freak thunderstorm. The effects are temporary but they will [[InvoluntaryShapeshifter transform whenever there's rain]].* In ''Asuka Hybrid'', Asuka got magically turned into a girl by a mystery woman and a misinterpreted wish.* ''Manga/BlazblueRemixHeart'' is a VideoGame/{{Blazblue}} spin off manga whose protagonist Mai Natsume gets transformed into a girl right before the start of the series. She is then sent to a boarding school under a false name where she lives together with a group of other girls. The series covers Mai's attempts to adjust to life as a girl as well as its effects on her personal identity.* In ''Manga/BokuGirl'', the lead character is a very girly looking guy, and Loki the trickster god decides to screw with him by making him into an actual girl.* Kenzo in ''Manga/BlueDrop: Tenshi no Bokura'' has been turned into a girl by aliens intent on conducting sexual experiments on human beings. He/she is supposed to get impregnated, and chooses his/her best friend Shouta as a partner.* ''Manga/BokuNoShotaiken'' is perhaps the Ur-example of GenderBender Manga: After a partially successful suicide attempt the main character has his brain transplanted in the body of a young woman. He then goes back to school seeking vengeance on the girls who drove him to jump off the cliff in the first place, only to strike up a GenderBenderFriendship with his old crush instead.* ''Manga/CuteXGuy'' follows the life of Sumi Takaoko, a girl whose father promises her a serum he concocted will make her mature looking and sexy. She uses it because she hears that's the type of woman her crush likes; sadly, her eccentric dad neglected to tell her that it will make her a [[AttractiveBentGender mature and sexy]] ''man''. One she turns into whenever her heart rate increases, which happens all too often when she's near her crush. She goes on to make friends with several guys who turn into girls, all with different triggers.* ''Manga/FutabaKunChange'' has a rather unfortunate scenario. The title character's entire family changes sex whenever they get sexually aroused, which means a) he will have to be the "girl" in any future relationship and b) the person he always thought of as his father ''[[MisterSeahorse is actually his mother]]''.* The second half of the manga ''Manga/GachaGacha'', ''Gacha Gacha Secret'' (volume six and onward) has a malfunctioning virtual-reality pod turn a guy into the game's female instructor whenever he sneezes. Unlike most [[FirstLawOfGenderBending he]] ''[[FirstLawOfGenderBending never even tries]]'' [[FirstLawOfGenderBending to reverse it]], and instead becomes friends with the girl he likes to get to know her better and get closer to her as a guy. Towards the end, [[spoiler: the game's developers get him to try to cure it, as--per the manga's approach to science -- each switch causes reversible (but fatal without treatment) brain damage.]]* The protagonist Eita Chinami from ''Manga/IdolPretender'' gets turned into a girl overnight when he mistook the "female beauty" pills as cold medicine. The story centers around Chinami becoming an idol, trying to earn lots of money to purchase the same pills in order to change himself back.* In ''LightNovel/{{Kampfer}}'', Natsuru Senou, the (originally) male lead character, transforms into a girl whenever he becomes a Kämpfer whether he wants to or not.* ''Anime/BirdyTheMighty'', in which the female title character has to share her body with a boy after she accidentally kills him. They are still discrete bodies, with Birdy able to switch them (and assume control over Tsutomu) at will. There is a short-lived exception to this, when Birdy receives heavy physical and mental trauma after a battle, and Tsutomu becomes the default personality, while stuck in Birdy's body.* In ''Manga/KashimashiGirlMeetsGirl'', space aliens reanimate a shy, diminutive and sensitive OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent as a girl after they 'accidentally' crush him under their crashing spaceship. Unlike some other examples of this trope no "cure" is even possible so Hazumu stays a girl, and seems quite a bit happier that way.* ''Manga/NozomuNozomi'' is about a pubescent boy (ironically teased for having a big penis) who is forced to dress as a cheerleader to redeem a bet made by his coach and discovers an interest in crossdressing that is just as strong as his love of baseball. After suffering an inexplicable spontaneous sex change when he almost gets caught wearing his younger sister's clothing he continues to live as boy ("crossdressing" as a girl in secret) until he hits puberty and starts feminizing in ways that can no longer be hidden. [[spoiler:He eventually uses their StrongFamilyResemblance to change places with his {{tomboy}}ish SchoolgirlLesbian sister who had been genderbending the other way.]]* In ''Manga/NyotaiKa'' a goddess turns an internet chatroom {{Main/GIRL}} into an actual woman to teach him a lesson, though it's [[BlueAndOrangeMorality not clear just what that lesson should be.]]* ''Mahou Shoujo Ore'' has an [[InvertedTrope inverted]] version of the "Magic Costume Turns You Into the Opposite Sex" plot: instead of a boy turning into a pretty girl, our heroine turns into a very toned ''boy'' when she transforms. [[RealMenWearPink And he still keeps the frilly pink dress.]] To top it all off, the love interest is ''[[EvenTheGuysWantHim very]]'' much in love [[LovesMyAlterEgo with this form.]]* In ''Manga/{{Maomarimo}}'', a boy takes his twin sister's place in a (non-bloody) VirginSacrifice, and gets turned into a girl.* ''Anime/DotHackSign'' does it a bit differently; one character is a CrossPlayer; trapped in a game which perfectly replicates sensation. More than that, [[{{Transgender}} this character thoroughly believes that she is male offline, and is offended at the idea that she isn't.]] This is part because of the incredible trauma she's been through at the hands of her abusive father and the fact that her memory was tampered with by a psychotic AI.* ''Anime/MazeMegaburstSpace'' is a complicated example. The title character changes gender at sunrise/sunset but each form has a separate personality and could almost be considered distinct individuals. The straightest example is when a hex meant to seal her powers results in Female Maze inhabiting Male Maze's body when night falls. The next day, Male Maze is in control of Female Maze's body in order to fight some thugs. After that, Female Maze and Male Maze occupy their respective bodies as normal, and continue to do so for the rest of the series.* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'':** The Sailor Starlights from the final season of the [[Anime/SailorMoon anime]]--the [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]] has them as simple crossdressers. Just to clarify, they aren't "men who turn into women to fight" but "men who ''revert'' to being women to fight", everything points to them having been born female.** In the ''Sailor Moon'' manga, and its parent manga ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'', Usagi and Minako use their disguise devices to disguise themselves as men on a few occasions. It isn't clarified ''how'' far reaching this disguise magic is.* ''Inu X Boku SS'':** In ''Anime/{{Inu X Boku SS}}'', Miketsukami transforms into a female version of himself to try and help Ririchiyo feel comfortable around him. In the anime, this happened in the OVA episode in Ayakashi Hall, but in the manga it was done throughout Ririchiyo's day at school.** In the manga, there is a bonus chapter in Volume 9 where Watanuki changes his form into a female swimsuit model. Nobara tells him that he doesn't have the porportions right, so he transforms into Karuta instead, matching the details of her body perfectly and spending the rest of the chapter in her form.* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' has a special technique called "Oiroke no Jutsu" (usually known in Western fandom as "Sexy no Jutsu" thanks to fan translations, officially translated by Viz as the "Sexy Jutsu"), used occasionally near the beginning of the series, where he temporarily turns into a cute, naked girl in order to give his opponents TheNoseBleed. It's stated that this is a "very easy technique" as the normal disguise technique is standard for any ninja (this one just transforms into a non-existent female); however, it's also a reference to the fact that Naruto has a ''kyuubi'' fox spirit within him. Traditionally, they had the power to shapeshift into beautiful human women. In the anime and manga he teaches the technique to the Third Hokage's grandson, and we later see the fruits of the training during the first couple of episodes/chapters of ''Naruto Shippuden''. In the earlier editions of the ''Ultimate Ninja'' video game series, this is one of Naruto's special attacks. Users of the Sharingan technique can copy the special attacks of their opponents. The results are about as entertaining as you could imagine.* ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'' has special "chibi" episodes, where Fuji, Oishi, and Momoshiro are all female. (And Eiji's a cat, to boot.)* ''Manga/CheekyAngel'': A a mischievous spirit twists Megumi's wish to be a "man among men" and turns him into a beautiful girl instead. Nobody except Megumi and her best friend remember she was ever male. [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed that she'd been a girl all along and the spirit had hypnotized them into believing she'd once been male because he lacked the power to actually change her sex.]]* Manga/ShishunkiBitterChange is a departure from the norm for this premise, since the gender swap between two elementary school students ends up becoming a permanent situation, and wacky hijinks associated with it are absent. It's a bit of a {{Deconstruction}} of the genre, since the two of them end up living double lives, and by the time they get into high school, they've spent almost as much time as each other as themselves. * ''Manga/TsukiyoNoFromage'': This is the basic premise of the story. [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Ordinary Middle School Student]] and {{Eroge}} loving boy, Miu gets TrappedInAnotherWorld after an EroticDream encounter with his newest game heroine. There's only one catch, he has become said [[GenderBender heroine]].* ''Everyone'' in the world of ''Anime/{{Simoun}}'' is born female, and doesn't commit to a permanent sex until age 17.* ''CinderellaBoy'' is about two detectives (a man and a woman) who are badly injured in a car accident and put back together in the same body by an ambiguous doctor--they switch places with each other at the stroke of midnight, with the twist that neither one can remember what the other did while in control of the body.* ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'': Berg Katse changes gender, at first at random, then on whim. In [[Anime/BattleOfThePlanets the heavily edited dub]], s/he became two people.* ''Manga/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'': [[spoiler:Allen Schezar's long-lost sister Celena isn't so much lost as "transformed by lunatic Emperor Donkirk into AxCrazy antagonist Dilandau"]].* A case of a voluntary gender bender is Kuugen Tenkou in ''LightNovel/WagayaNoOinariSama''. Kuu can be either female or male and is comfortable in either form. This is because Kuu lived for so long s/he forgot what gender s/he was, and being a [[PettingZooPeople fox spirit]], can change at will. Kuu seems to prefer female form, though.* One episode of ''Anime/TheTowerOfDruaga: The Aegis of Uruk'' had the entire main party switch genders as a result of a magical trap. Ahmey and Kaaya in particular found the experience quite distressing, as they were unaccustomed to walking with the, er, alteration in body balance.* ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'': Yubel seems to self-identify as female but is a hermaphrodite, with the Japanese version possessing a male voice about half the time. Further complicating issues are the fact that in the past lives of Yubel and Judai, they were apparently both male.* ''Manga/PrettyFace'' is about someone whose face was constructed to look like a girl's, but still remained physically male (except for some fake breasts that he occasionally uses).* ''Manga/VampireDoll'' (with the added subtitle of ''Guilt-Na-Zan'' in the west) is a Gender Bender story about a vampire aristocrat called Guilt-Na-Zan who was vanquished many years ago and later brought back by the descendant of the man who offed him. Because the descendant is a perv with a {{Moe}} obsession, he brought Guilt-Na-Zan back in the form of a cute teenage girl by placing the vampire's soul into a wax doll, Guilt-Na-chan. Guilt-Na-chan can become Guilt-Na-Zan for brief periods when (s)he drinks the blood of the girl Guilt-Na-chan was modeled on (the resurrector's little sister, which implies he [[BrotherSisterIncest has a crush on his sister]]).* In the CuteWitch series ''Manga/UltraManiac'', this is the first major spell we see Nina cast. Ayu needed to beat Hiroki in a tennis match as the girls' and boys' tennis clubs were feuding over the use of the school tennis courts and had bet on a match between the two. So when Ayu says she could use a spell to make her strong, Nina casts a GenderBender spell without thinking much. While Ayu was able to pass herself of as her own cousin all the spell did was throw Ayu's balance and timing off because of the size and strength difference. Later Nina and Ayu both use the spell because of mildly convoluted reasons surrounding a triple date.* Several examples in ''Manga/ToLoveRu'':** Ren/Run switches gender at a sneeze.** Lala designed a rocket to improve women's physical appearance, but Rito landed on it. When the rocket exploded, Rito changed into a girl.** Afterwards, Lala creates a TransformationRay for the express purpose of doing this, except with that he'll eventually turn back on his own. She uses it at least 4 times, usually so that Rito/Riko can go on a date with his [[HoYay male best friend]]. He obliges once, but whenever she tries it again, he runs.* ''Manga/AkaneChanOverdrive'' is a short, humorous ecchi manga where the main character, Amamiya, gets knocked unconscious and then sucked into the body of an attractive high-school girl (Akane). Later in the story Amamiya manages to return to his own body, but his best friend Murai is then sucked into Akane's body. Amamiya proceeds to propose marriage.* ''Manga/OnePiece'':** [[WholesomeCrossdresser "Miracle Worker" Emporio Ivankov]] is a man who ate the Horm-Horm Fruit, which allows him to affect the hormones in a person's body, to the point where a man can become a woman and a woman can become a man, with Ivankov refusing to say which of the Newkama were altered and which weren't.** An April Fools joke made by some people created a page in which Luffy was a girl because of Ivankov, mainly to disguise himself.** There's also Mr. 2 Bon Clay, who ate the Clone-Clone Fruit, which allows him to transform into anybody he's ever touched, be they male, female, or no gender at all. Not surprisingly, Bon Clay and Ivankov are good friends.* Yuuri in ''VisualNovel/{{Tayutama}}'' has a magic charm that can turn him into a girl, mostly used for infiltrating Flawless Girls' School for purposes that are honestly good. As long as he doesn't make a habit out of it.* One reason why [[TheChick Chrome]] remains relatively popular in ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'', a series whose fandom is dominated by YaoiFangirl, is probably because half the time she turns into local DracoInLeatherPants Mukuro.* In the first season of ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'', the girls once use their magic to turn into boys, in order to investigate in their stolen Magic-Shop. Doremi, however, blew the cover by chanting her CatchPhrase ("I'm the unluckiest pretty ''Girl'' in the whole world!!") upon seeing magic charms who are claimed to be able to prevent said CatchPhrase.* In the manga ''Manga/OtomeNoIroha'', twins Iroha (female) and Hifumi (male) are transformed into their opposite genders by their [[OlderThanTheyLook Dead grandmother]] because Iroha is so masculine and Hifumi so feminine that they would never get married and have children. The supposed cure is [[ValuesDissonance to act as closely to their original gender's stereotypes as possible]], so either way, the grandmother wins.* The premise of ''Manga/KedamonoDamono'' revolves around this: the main character's boyfriend, Haruki, turns into a lascivious girl at night. Naturally, it involves some BiTheWay.* Homura in ''Manga/{{Sekirei}}'' had an unstable sex, and so started turning into a woman in response to the main character. It's not been revealed if the transformation was complete or not, but Homura now has a more feminine body and face as well as breasts.* In ''Manga/HeavensLostProperty'', through some AppliedPhlebotinum, protagonist Tomoki transforms himself into "Tomoko", his female identity. After gaining the trust of the school by acting like the anime girls he's familiar with, his main objective becomes clear: to get into the baths with the girls and get intimate under the pretense of "we're all girls, aren't we?". His plan nearly succeeds, if he hadn't succumbed to the excitement of it all. He uses the transformation again in the second season; since everybody knows what "Tomoko" looks like, she decides to use another AppliedPhlebotinum to turn herself into swimming pool water (to grope the girls in it, of course). [[spoiler:After she is found out and transforms back into her girl body, she runs into the girls bathroom, where she is trapped in one of the stalls. Rather than go out and get beaten up by the girls, she instead ''[[CrazyAwesome flushes herself down the toilet.]]'']]* In the ''VisualNovel/OtomeWaBokuNiKoishiteru'' [[VisualNovel game]]/manga, WholesomeCrossdresser Mizuho finds out that being possessed by Ichiko turns him into a ''real'' girl, just in time to solve his swim class predicament. [[AdaptationInducedPlothole This doesn't make it into the anime]].* ''Manga/SoulEater''** A chapter features all of the main characters (as well as some other weapons and masters) being gender flipped. [[spoiler:In context, they were experiencing the SevenDeadlySins. In the Lust area, they became their own versions of lust.]] For example, Tsubaki is a tall {{Bishonen}}, Maka is a straight-laced male student, Soul is a very stylish and feminine woman (Soul admits that he makes up his usual slacker look to look cool), and Black☆Star has an impressive chest (What other size would a person that loves attention that much have?). It's also worth noting that the twist of them being their own ideal sexualization has interesting ramifications for shippers. [[spoiler:While Black☆Star is not quite the bishonen that Tsubaki is pinning for, he is certainly working his way towards it and Tsubaki certainly has the one ahem... aspect that Black☆Star seems obsessed with. However it is almost pathetically obvious with Soul Eater himself, whose ideal woman just happens to be the elegant small-chested woman that his "excitement" transforms Maka into.]]** [[spoiler:Giriko]] has done this via BodySurf into an OppositeSexClone. Not entirely pleased about the fact but it was the only body available.* The two-chapter manga ''Kanaete Aizen'' tells the story of a young man who desperately wants a girlfriend. However, with the exception of his childhood friend, who he sees more of as a friend than a girl, he can't even talk to a girl without going into a full-blown panic attack. One night, he wishes on a temple charm for a cute girl of his very own, only to wake up the next morning to find out the spirit of the charm granted his wish by turning him into a girl. Going to school as his "cousin", he, well, [[GenderBenderFriendship you should be able]] [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend to figure out the rest.]]* Played for angst with [[spoiler:Ranmaru]] of the manga series ''Manga/KagerouNostalgia''. Formerly a woman, [[spoiler: [[ActionGirl Ran]]]] was transformed into a man by the series' BigBad before the story even began and [[spoiler: now serves as one of his [[CoDragons two Dragons]]]]. This sucks for [[spoiler: her partner, Rikimaru]] who had a huge crush on her female form. And did we mention that they're now forced to serve together as HeterosexualLifePartners? And that once a month she changes back to a woman? And that fifteen years ago he told her how he felt and pretty much destroyed their relationship? As previously stated, it's played entirely for angst.* Kanata from ''Oto×Maho'' is a guy who becomes a MagicalGirl as a result of ThePlan by his mother.* ''Manga/{{Gunnm}}'':** Sechs in ''Gunnm Last Order'' is a female-to-male version of Gally, thereby becoming her SpearCounterpart. He (?) starts off looking like a very tough and "masculine" woman and ends up opting for a male cyborg body. {{Lampshade}}d when Elf and Zwolf ask him if he misses having breasts and he answers "What's the use of having them?" He may have a point; being a full android, it's just useless padding to him. His situation is given a very weird touch (well, weirder in addition to the whole robot body thing) by the fact that his brain chip is in a separate, chibi-fied, female body that's connected to the male one and which rides around on his shoulder. Yes, really. Though "Mini-Sechs" probably doesn't have any gender at all. Either way, [[http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/3792/enjl.png it at least assumes the same male clothing]] after getting trashed [[http://www.mangareader.net/1047-39595-21/battle-angel-alita-last-order/chapter-30.html in the first round.]] Although, [[ViewerGenderConfusion if the interactive interface does have gender]], then [[http://www.mangareader.net/1047-39590-12/battle-angel-alita-last-order/chapter-25.html during the first round, he had a still female chibi on his shoulder]], which [[http://www.mangareader.net/1047-39607-12/battle-angel-alita-last-order/chapter-41.html from there on out crossdressed but was still female.]] [[MindScrew Wrap that around your head for a while.]]** Arguably, Gally herself qualifies for a while. Her second body from the original series was originally male until Dr. Ido reconfigured it for her. Sechs's decision may be seen as a ContinuityNod, because in the original series, [[spoiler:after Hugo dies]] [[http://manga.animea.net/battle-angel-alita-chapter-13-page-33.html Gally shows a desire to give up her female body in order to abandon her past emotions and become nothing but a "gun".]]* In the manga ''AragamiHime'', the female protagonist Kazuki is the reincarnation of Akoumaru, who is a male in her past life. The reason behind this is because Akoumaru wanted to become the Aragami Hime, which led to the main plot of the story. Though this became a huge blessing for the male protagonist Shirou in the [[BabiesEverAfter ending]]. The same goes for Kazuki's brother, Masaki, who was a female as well as Akoumaru's lover in his past life.* In the ''Anime/SteelAngelKurumi'' manga Kurumi's accidental use of AppliedPhlebotinum temporarily turns Nakahito into a girl.* Yona Rouma, the protagonist of ''Manga/SekainohateDeAimashou'', gets turned into a woman when Emillio slips him a potion while unconscious. Rouma gets turned into a female in order to be Emillio's wife, much to Rouma's dismay.* ''Manga/MakenKi'':** During chapter 19, Takeru [[http://www.mangatown.com/manga/maken_ki/c019/4.html used "Overblow"]] to briefly short out Celia's Maken, which was how he and the others first learned [[http://www.mangatown.com/manga/maken_ki/c019/8.html Celia was really a boy.]] As long as his Maken has power, "Inversion" allows him to maintain the form of a fully biological girl and was told by Akaya that, if he perfected it, [[http://www.mangatown.com/manga/maken_ki/c019/10.html it may eventually become permanent]] just as Celia wants.** In the chapter 37 bonus story, Celia used "Inversion" [[http://www.mangatown.com/manga/maken_ki/c037/11.html to change Takeru and Usui into girls]] for fun, when they drunkenly barged in on the girls' private party at the beachhouse. It wore off by morning, but they couldn't recall any of what'd happened, or [[http://www.mangatown.com/manga/maken_ki/c037/16.html why they were wearing girls' underwear.]]* In ''Manga/SorcererStabberOrphen'', we have a combination of Gender Bender and {{Transgender}} in [[spoiler:the local CoolBigSis and Orphen's first travel partner, Stephanie]]. Orphen explains to Majik and Cleao that [[spoiler:she used to be a male magic-user named Stephan until few years ago, when she was seriously injured and her male body was horribly torn apart. During her recovery, she asked the healers if they could turn said male body into a female one; they accepted, and now Stephan''ie'' has a female body that she's very comfortable with.]]* Ohiri from ''Gestalt''. Not revealed in the OAV, but in the last volume of the manga, Ohiri is a false body & she's actually a male god.* ''Manga/FairyTail'' has Natsu turning into [[http://mangafox.me/manga/fairy_tail/v15/c119.5/8.html Lucy]] for a transformation test. His [[ManIFeelLikeAWoman reaction to the change]] is a typical one.* ''Manga/KarakuridoujiUltimo'' gives us Kodaira Rune, a very feminine boy who [[spoiler: is the reincarnation of an ancient Japanese princess.]] His gender-bending existence is of vital importance to the series' plot.* ''Manga/DescendantsOfDarkness'': Yutaka Watari's goal in life (well, goal in death) is to find a potion that can do this. He's not even transgender, just curious and a bit bored.* ''Manga/KamisamaKiss'' has Tomoe, a male LittleBitBeastly {{Kitsune}}, posing as Nanami, female human OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent, a total of three times so far. The first when she was sick, he covered for her at school. The second time when she was attending the conference, he also covered for her at school. [[ShapeshiftingSeducer The third, well...]]* The main concept of ''Manga/BokuraNoKiseki'' centers around the fact that the male protagonist, Harusumi, is the {{Reincarnation}} of a princess, Veronica. That being said, the series contains surprisingly little in the way of gender-bending antics. [[spoiler: Hiroki, a female character, ends up being the reincarnation of a male squire.]]* In ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'', a FreakyFridayFlip situation occurs before Keima ennacts his plan to make Yui fall in love with him. As a result, they are forced to live the life of the other for an extended period of time. [[spoiler:The spirit is still inside Yui's body, so]] the situation begins to affect Keima negatively, [[spoiler: even if the spirit's growth is still dependent on Yui.]] In the end, Keima [[spoiler:assumes the role of the heroine [[ThePlan and incites events]] to [[BeyondTheImpossible simultaneously capture himself as a boy and a girl.]]]]* ''Manga/YamadaKunAndTheSevenWitches'' features some amusing GenderBending comedy. Yamada who has copied the power to swap bodies spends a fair amount of time as a girl. He's admitted he had to go to the toilet "like a girl" (Shirashi meanwhile just avoids going to the toilet while she's a boy). Regardless of whether he is a boy or a girl Yamada will tend to stomp around like he's carrying bowling balls and shows little regard for flashing people when giving roundhouse kicks, which is probably part of the reason why Yamada's attempts to use feminine wiles to his advantage usually don't work out well. * In ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'', there is ''an entire arc'' centered around this trope. It starts off with [[spoiler:Kyuubei talking to a fortune-teller who then changes the gender of the entire Kabukichou residents.]]* ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'' features a one-shot doppleganger villain that turns into Tsukune in order to sneak off of the school's property without getting caught. It ends up getting caught by Tsukune's entire harem, who start fighting over "him"; when he hits Ruby, she gets aroused, which causes Yukari to demonstrate her favorite fetish. Perhaps now is a good time to mention that the doppleganger is terrified of women, though it's never mentioned why. Tsukune ends up showing up and starts using his powers, whipping him into a mindless rage. The doppleganger grabs Kurumu to steal her succubus powers and ends up turning into a girl complete with Kurumu's G-cup breasts, which it flashes Tsukune with to distract him; it works very well. Kurumu ends up being extremely upset about how the doppleganger is acting with "her" body. Considering that the doppleganger is wearing a bra when it rips open its shirt (which it stole from Tsukune to better disguise itself as him) in front of Tsukune, no one quite knows which form was actually the gender-bent one.** The bra was actually a result of censorship; in the original you can even see her/his nipples, which makes everyone's reactions make more sense.* After cross dressing as a girl throughout the 2nd half of the story, Cruz finally got turned into a girl by Blade in chapter 113 of Manga/{{Needless}}. The expression on Disc's face towards this is priceless.* In ''LightNovel/OreNoNounaiSentakushiGaGakuenLoveComeOZenryokuDeJamaShiteiru'', Kanade Amakusa receives a phone call from someone claiming to be {{God}}. Naturally, Kanade thinks this is a prank call... until the caller turns him into a girl. The caller changes him back when he apologizes and admits he is God. After the credits, there's a "what-if" clip that shows how Kanade's life would have gone if he had chosen to remain a girl.* Keiichi, the male lead of ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'', has a brief instance of this. A mishap with some of Urd's potion ingredients results in him growing breasts and his hair growing out, which is the default state for most of the arc but dialogue implies that in attempting to correct this he managed to turn completely female for a time.* The protagonist, Amel, in ''Webcomic/AmericanoExodus'', uses magic to turn himself into a female in order to conceal his real gender to become a magical girl.* In one episode of ''[[{{Franchise/Anpanman}} Sorieke! Anpanman]]'' titled ''Valentine's Day Dokinchan'' where Bakinchan created a hammer that can change genders of the person. * In ''Manga/IsTheOrderARabbit'', for reasons unexplained, [[spoiler:but implied to have something to do with a young Cocoa's wish on his behalf]], Chino's grand''father'' lives in his ''female'' pet rabbit's body.* ''LightNovel/GonnaBeTheTwinTail'', a SuperSentai parody at its core, has its male protagonist turn into... a short, flat-chested redhead wearing MegaTwintails. It's partly due to it being the most effective form to combat the antagonists with (what them being a group of pervert otaku), and partly due to the creator of the TransformationTrinket (who is ''female'', mind you) having a thing for young girls. * One episode of Anime/OnegaiSamiaDon has a teenage boy named Sil ask the wish-granting magical being Psammed to transform him into a girl with the looks of his crush Anne so he can chase away his love rival. HilarityEnsues.* Shirou and Shiho in ''Manga/MyMonsterSecret'' are a case of SplitPersonality gender bending, much like Ren and Run from ''To Love-ru'' (and like in TLR, they're the childhood friends of the female MC). They are a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent wolfman]] whose gender changes whenever they look at the moon… or anything that ''remotely looks like a moon'' (including pictures). Shiho is the main personality, but because of the above, she sometimes inadvertently tranforms, leaving Shirou in an AccidentalPervert position.* ''Manga/SgtFrog'': In the anime, there's an episode where Natsumi is turned into a boy accidentally, while something similar happens to Fuyuki, who becomes a girl, in the manga. In both cases though, they return to normal at the end of a single story.** In an in-game crossover quest with the mobile rpg ''VideoGame/KemonoFriends'', it's the Keroro Platoon themselves who are turned into human girls. This is used for a longer in-game storyline and they can be used as standard party members even outside of that quest. Unlike the stories in the manga and anime, it follows the FirstLawOfGenderBending, with the Keroro platoon never going back to normal in the game's story, although they learn a way to do it. The characters also follow the ThirdLawOfGenderBending to various degrees, with them all dressing as girls, and quickly becoming used to being girls, in spite of Keroro's initial shock, and Giroro's continuous denial. Giroro and Dororo even completely change their speech patterns to more feminine ones, while Keroro boasts to the player about how she makes a perfect girl in her self description.* In ''LightNovel/MagicalGirlRaisingProject'', no matter what you look like in real life, your Magical Girl form will be an idealized version of you as a Magical Girl, and will always be female. Naturally, not many people in the cast realizes that [[spoiler:La Pucelle]] is actually male in human form.* In the manga ''Osananajimi wa Onnanoko ni Naare'' a student named Shuichi is offered a wish by a fairy named Sylphy for saving from drowning using it to wish for a childhood. Due to circumstances, Sylphy instead transforms his male childhood friend Iori into a girl. However, Iori can simply force himself to turn back through sheer willpower. With Sylphy refusing to giving up, the series follows the ongoing pursuits of keeping Iori a cute, well-endowed chick (to the admiration of his classmates) and falling into the role of a female childhood friend, much to Iori's hesitation.* In ''Sentou Hakai Gakuen Dangerous'', there exist people called Majin, who have phenomenal powers. The main character, Otome Ryousein, can remove a man's testicles. Thirty minutes after removal, the victim will transform into a girl. As long as the testicles are unharmed, he can put them back. This leads to a bizarre sequence wherein a local gang begs Otome to transform them into girls in order to fight another majin with the ability of making [[GroinAttack men's balls explode]]. The transformation results vary - some end up looking like [[AttractiveBentGender really cute girls]], and the others... [[FanDisservice not so much.]] * The manga ''Manga/HungryMarie'' has a father and daughter attempt to resurrect Marie Therese (the daughter of Marie Antoinette) by sacrificing a school boy named Taiga. The result has Taiga and Therese sharing a body which transforms between the two ala ''Birdy The Mighty''; the key difference here is that because the ritual went awry, Taiga's personality is in control of Therese's form, and vice versa. As with other notable examples, both personalities can talk to each other mentally. The change is triggered when Therese becomes hungry, changing the body to Taiga. When her appetite is sated, Taiga retakes control by turning it back into Therese's.* ''LightNovel/YoujoSenki'': The main character Tanya is an unusual example: she was a man in her previous life, and was reincarnated as a girl in an alternate universe with all of her memories intact. For the most part, she doesn't let this bother her, though she doesn't like wearing girly dresses and finds the prospect of sex as a woman deeply disgusting.* In ''Manga/FushigiYuugiGenbuKaiden'', Rimudo has the ability to switch between male and female forms, although he usually stays male.* Plays into the story of ''Yukarism''. Main character Yukari is a successful author of Edo-era stories, as he is the reincarnation of an ''oiran'' named Yuumurasaki. He has the ability to become her and relive his past life, primarily to learn more about how Yuumurasaki unexpectedly died. As Yukari maintains Yuumurasaki's memories, he is knowledgeable enough to act the part, but often forgets to act like a woman from older times in favor of being a present day teenage boy much to the confusion of others.* This briefly happens to the titular character of ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' in one chapter of the manga, courtesy of Ilulu. Played with, as since she's a [[ACupAngst flat-chested]] {{Tomboy}} who's only distinctly female trait is her long hair, no one other then herself actually notices the difference.* In ''Until the Full Moon'', the hero is a vampire-werewolf hybrid who turns into a girl during the full moon. As if that wasn't enough, he's also betrothed to the son of a family friend.* In ''Anime/GalaxyAngel'', Forte and Volcott had their genders switched thanks to a piece of Lost Technology. Volcott is suspiciously enthusiastic about being turned into a woman, while Forte nearly finds "himself" married to Ranpha.* In ''Manga/{{Chirality}}'', Carol is able to use her shapeshifting ability to do this.* In ''Manga/MyCelestialFamily'' male protagonist Ray transforms into a MagicalGirlWarrior to battle the forces of evil.* In ''Manga/PleaseSaveMyEarth'', the female Enju reincarnated into the male Issei.* In one episode of ''Manga/GirlsBravo'', Lisa uses her magic to switch various people's bodies, although she didn't actually intend for gender-bending to occur.* Occurs in one episode of ''Anime/RuneSoldierLouie''. AttractiveBentGender is subverted, however, as Louie looks pretty much the same except for his new breasts.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Card Games]]* ''TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}}'' includes at least one Gender Bender card in each iteration, and sometimes two! (Might come in handy if you're a low-level and poorly-geared male facing a deadly Amazon!)[[/folder]]

[[folder:Comic Books]]* Creator/MarvelComics** In ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'', Jessica Drew, Spider-Woman, is the end result of the Ultimate Clone Saga. She is a clone of Peter Parker, implanted with his memories and genetically modified in vitro to be female and develop additional powers. During the Clone Saga she fills the same role as Ben Riley did in the 616 Clone Saga. Afterwards she assumed the CIA/FBI created identity of Jessica Drew and returned to active crime fighting as Spider-Woman. She confessed that along with inheriting Peter's memories, she is still in love with Mary Jane Watson.** ''ComicBook/XMen'' examples:*** Supporting character Courier has the power of complete control of his body's cells, allowing for shapeshifting as well as other abilities. While undercover as a woman, he was discovered by [[EvilutionaryBiologist Mr. Sinister]] and injected with drugs that would cause his body to break down. Gambit made a deal with Sinister to have Courier stabilized, and Sinister kept up his end of the bargain -- but didn't know Courier was originally male. The female form is now Courier's default form.*** Due to a consciousness transfer to a cloned body gone slightly askew, Sinister himself is now ''Miss'' Sinister.*** And now Misters Sinister. And then back to a Miss, this time in a stolen body. At this point Sinister is more of a consciousness that occupies whatever body (or bodies) it needs.** ''ComicBook/AlphaFlight'' member Walter Langkowski spent several years as "Wanda," due to having possessed a dead female teammate's body.** ComicBook/IronMan is even subjected to this; his armor (which, at this point, is partially fused with his body) gets hijacked by Ultron and reshaped into the image of Janet van Dyne, Ultron's "mother". After it's undone, the entire [[ComicBook/TheAvengers Mighty Avengers]] team teases him about it.** The Skrulls from the Franchise/MarvelUniverse are a race of shapeshifters. Skrulls changing into other genders have been seen from their very first appearance (the four Skrulls that attempted to replace the Fantastic Four were all male). It's just that [[ChekhovsGun nobody had noticed the detail or thought on it]] until the example below.** One obvious application of the Skulls' inherent ability didn't come to light (at least, in canon) until the male Skrull Xavin turned up in ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' and asked for Karolina's hand in marriage. Karolina, being a lesbian, refused... until Xavin transformed into a female human, because for a Skrull to change his/her physical sex is as easy as blinking.** Loki of ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'' spent some time in a female body (eventually revealed to be that of the goddess Sif); he eventually returned to his usual body.*** In Loki's [[Comicbook/LokiAgentOfAsgard solo book]], while male most of the time, they can and do flip gender at will. They spent weeks in female form infiltrating Lorelei's band of thieves, then a few issues later flipped genders AGAIN to gain the trust of the Angels, in an all-female society, and didn't bother to switch back for the rest of the miniseries. Odin even refers to them as his child who is both his son and daughter at least on two occasions. This continues in the jerks [[ComicBook/VoteLoki next solo book]] too, complete with a character joking about Loki becoming America's first female president.** Invoked in ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' storyline, "The Superia Stratagem". Supervillain Superia plans to establish "Femizonia" -- a female-ruled utopia from which she will TakeOverTheWorld. Captain America and his allies infiltrate her base to stop her, but Cap and Paladin are captured at one point, and subjected to Superia's feminization process. (She believes that, as women, the heroes will see the light and join her cause.) The two male heroes are rescued before the process does anything to them, however.** Endo of ''The Death of Wolverine: The Weapon X Project'' and ''Comicbook/{{Wolverines}}'' is introduced as a Chinese woman named Meifeng when Sharp frees her from the Paradise installation. [[spoiler: It's eventually revealed that she was actually ''a man'' before Paradise got hold of her, and the boyfriend/fiance she's been desperate to locate after escaping is not only dead, but was actually his ''girlfriend''.]]* Creator/DCComics** In ''ComicBook/ShadeTheChangingMan'', Shade's consciousness leaps into the body of a recently murdered woman. Unfortunately, he was unable to alter her body to resemble his old one until he solved her murder and put her soul at rest. This led to various comical scenes with Shade experiencing the MaleGaze, his first period and sex as a woman.** The second ''ComicBook/InfinityInc.'' series, from the writer of ''Shade'', Peter Milligan, featured team member Fury, who involuntarily switches between genders.** In ''ComicBook/ResurrectionMan'', title character Mitch Shelley spends a couple of issues as a woman, after being tortured to death several times (with each time being more painful than the last). His persecutor has a theory (opinions differ as to the amount of TruthInTelevision therein):-->'''Mr. Bland:''' Women have appreciably higher pain thresholds than men. If Shelley reconfigures from each termination in a form suited to "protect" him from that method of death, then a female version would make sense.** In ''ComicBook/SupermanBatman'' #27, the Earth-2 version of Franchise/{{Superman}} finds himself in the body of his cousin ComicBook/PowerGirl, while the Earth-2 Franchise/{{Batman}} is in the body of his daughter, the Huntress.** In one issue of ''[[Franchise/GreenLantern Guy Gardner: Warrior]]'', the title character's demonic archenemy Dementor turns him into a woman ("Gal Gardner") for no clear reason, and later forces him/her to perform a fashion show for it by threatening hostages it has. (It would be highly cynical to suggest that the [[{{Doylist}} real]] reason was that, at the time, Guy was a rare example of a male character in a {{Stripperiffic}} costume, so naturally they wanted to [[http://www.comics.org/issue/230858/cover/4/ show]] what it looked like on a female character.) ** In ''ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}'' stories, the trope has been used several times:*** PlayedForDrama in an infamous {{Retcon}} that long-time supporting character Shvaughn Erin had been taking the gender-changing drug "[=ProFem=]" the entire time we'd known her. After going off the drug, she becomes "Sean."*** "Grandin Gender Reversal Disease" causes a temporary change of gender. It temporarily transforms Matter-Eater Lad into Matter-Eater Lass as part of an infiltration mission.*** PlayedForLaughs in a very silly ''Legion of Substitute Heroes'' one-shot, when Color Kid becomes Color Queen.** Averted/Misdiagnosed once by ComicBook/AmbushBug in an issue of ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}''. The Bug spends most of the story trying to cure Franchise/{{Superman}} of the dastardly plot that transformed him into a young blonde woman. It's a case of CriticalResearchFailure for Ambush Bug, though. Despite his {{Genre Savv|y}}iness, he somehow was completely unaware of the existence of [=SuperGIRL=]. He does, however, turn out to be GenreSavvy enough to figure out Supergirl's secret identity at the end.[[note]]''Supergirl'' (2nd Series) #16 (1984)[[/note]]** ComicBook/{{Zatanna}}'s beautiful assistant Mikey is the result of an [[NoodleIncident unspecified]] magical Gender Bender. A "three years ago" dream sequence, depicts her as a burly male.[[note]]''Zatanna'' #13 (2011)[[/note]] {{Word of God}} from writer Paul Dini says "Zatanna didn't do it & can't reverse it; Mikey brought it on him/herself. Now Mikey's in an interesting place where she has to sort out her feelings about this." While there's a lot more to Mikey's story, with the book's cancellation, it doesn't seem likely that the story will be told any time soon, if ever.** In a 1960 ''ComicBook/{{Superboy}}'' story, "Claire Kent: Super-Sister," Superboy is turned into a girl by a telepathic alien girl from a matriarchal planet who's insulted by Superboy's chauvinistic ''thoughts''. Superboy has to adjust to being a girl in both his secret and super identities... but in the end, it turns out to be AllJustADream.[[note]]''Superboy'' #78 (1960)[[/note]]** Believe it or not, ComicBook/{{Superboy}}'s dog, [[ComicBook/KryptoTheSuperDog Krypto]], had not one, but ''two'' Red Kryptonite Gender Bender adventures!*** "The Handsome Hound of Steel" has a plot that wouldn't be at all out of place in modern TG fiction. Krypto wants to change into a handsome collie to impress a female collie, but a Red K cloud ends up turning Krypto into a duplicate of the bitch he fancies -- and it turns out she's pregnant! Krypto actually delivers puppies in his altered form (though they vanish from existence when he changes back to normal.)[[note]]''Superboy'' #101 (1962)[[/note]]*** In "Krypto's Three Amazing Transformations", a time-traveling Krypto gets turned into a cow (and definitely a female, because she gets milked!) And not just any cow, but [[http://www.comicbooktidbits.com/Krypto%27s%20Time%20Trip.htm the cow that started the great Chicago fire of 1871!]] (As it happens, the wrongly accused Mrs. O'Leary's cow was innocently grazing in a pasture at the time.)[[note]]''Superman Family'' #165 ( 1974)[[/note]]** Given its premise (a dial that transforms its user into a random superheroic identity), you'd think this trope would have turned up in ''ComicBook/DialHForHero'' more often than this:*** In the Chris King/Vicki Grant series, it showed up once, albeit in circuitous fashion. The dial turned Chris into a hero named "Any-Body" -- a hero with shapeshifting powers that Chris used to take the form of Naiad, a villainess, in order to trick another bad guy.*** One storyline in the 2003-2005 ''H.E.R.O.'' revival had a chauvinistic male character use the dial, after which he turned into a buxom blonde female hero. Unfortunately he had no means of changing himself back. The story was ''not'' played for laughs, and included such low points as the hero being ''date-raped'' by his male best friend.*** The ComicBook/{{New 52}}'s ''Dial H'' series introduces this concept in the third issue, when the main character learns he'll land in a female body "every few dials."* Lucifer, in Joseph Michael Linsner's ''Dawn'' series, has been shown at least once to be able to take on a female form. Considering he is a former angel and [[spoiler:the gay lover of Ahura Mazda (the series' God analogue)]], this has some interesting potential ramifications.* At the end of the ''ComicBook/XXXenophile'' story "Vici, Vidi, Veni", an army invades territory that worships a god of lust, believing him to be a farce, and everybody in their empire gets turned into frogs. The smirking god asks the sole unchanged knight whether he now believes, and the survivor says yes. As a reward for the "conversion", he's promptly turned into a woman and made an acolyte of the god, being led off to the novice quarters (and, implicitly, [[GirlOnGirlIsHot hot lesbian sex]]).* In the comic book ''[[ComicBook/TheUltraverse Mantra]]'' from Malibu Publishing, the main character is a warrior employed by a wizard. He's continually reborn by having the wizard transplant his soul into a new male host whenever he died. At the start of the series, the wizard is betrayed and has only enough strength to move his most loyal warrior's soul one more time. He tells the warrior that this time it will be different. The warrior awakes to find himself in the body of a single mother. The series deals with him coping with this and having to learn magic to cope with his lack of martial abilities.* In ''ComicBook/{{Camelot 3000}}'' by Mike W. Barr and Brian Bolland, KingArthur is awakened from his sleep during an alien invasion. A number of Arthur's knights have been reincarnated, sometimes into distinctly different bodies (e.g., black, Asian, [[{{Mutants}} hideous mutant]].) Sir Tristan, quite a womanizer in his former life, is reincarnated as a young woman. The appearance of Isolde (also reincarnated, but still female) complicates the matter further, although they end up in a surprisingly sweet lesbian relationship.* When IDW comics started their ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW Transformers]]'' comic, it was decided that [[OneGenderRace there would only be male Cybertronians]]. When they decided to include female transformer Arcee into the universe, they decided ''not'' to {{retcon}} their decision, and so they made Arcee the victim of a forced alteration by a MadScientist specifically to introduce gender to the race. S/he's understandably pissed off about it.* In ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', Desire can be either gender whenever it wants to be, and is frequently depicted with both male and female traits. In its first appearance, Desire greatly resembles ''another'' being who is "whatever it wants to be": Gozer from ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}''.* In the comic ''ComicBook/LockeAndKey'', by Creator/StephenKing's son Creator/JoeHill, one (of many) magic keys can open doors and allow whoever steps through them to swap genders.* In Alan Moore's ''ComicBook/{{Promethea}}'', Roger, a member of the supporting character team "the Five Swell Guys". Roger used to be a man until an [[NoodleIncident unseen incident]] at "Suffragette City" turned him into a woman. Roger's original form was never depicted in the comic.* Mighty Man of ''ComicBook/TheSavageDragon'' is an ancient entity passed from host to host at the point of death. The current host is female Ann Stevens (or New Ann...it's complicated) - the host, regardless of their sex, is able to transform into a tall blonde man with FlyingBrick powers, by tapping their wrists together.* In the Franchise/ArchieComics story "The Great Switcheroo", Comicbook/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch's cat Salem casts a spell that changes the sex of everybody in Riverdale. The story plays a bit like a GenderFlip in execution, as none of the transformed characters know what their "true" sex is supposed to be, but it "really" happened, and Sabrina's eventual reversal spell isn't actually a ResetButton. There's even video evidence suggesting that the gang spent a day as the opposite sex, though none of them remember it.[[note]]''Archie'' #636 (2012)[[/note]]* In the 2012 relaunch of ''ComicBook/{{Youngblood}}'', Photon, formerly a male character, is now Lady Photon. His/her race apparently switches genders every seven years. * Speaking of Youngblood. In 1995, Image comics decided to cash in on their 'target demographic' by temporarily turning many of their heroes into heroines, a period known as "Extreme Babewatch," this event started in Youngblood, where Glory's nemesis Diablolique has revenge on her enemy (and just men as a whole) by changing all man Glory had ever met into women. The event lasted only a month and didn't have much to carry on plot wise, but it occoured through much of images then current lines, dramatically raising the amount of fanservice. As was the point.** It also introduced 'Lady Supreme'.* Monster Girl from ''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}'' is, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a girl who can turn into a monster]]--a MALE monster. She's even [[spoiler: fathered a son]] in monster form.* Issue 6 of IDW's ''ComicBook/SamuraiJack'' comic sees Jack reuniting with his old friend, the Scotsman... who's been turned into a woman by mischievous leprechauns for wrecking their fairy circle. The leprechauns strike a bargain with Jack to turn the Scotsman back to normal... but as they're sealing the deal they turn ''Jack'' into a woman too, [[ItAmusedMe apparently because they thought it would be funny]].* In ''ComicBook/TheWickedAndTheDivine'', Lucifer is reincarnated as a girl (who generally goes by Luci and uses female pronouns). Inanna, a female Sumerian goddess, was likewise incarnated as male, though in his case, [[AmbiguousGenderIdentity "guy is a small word"]]. The 1831 Woden also incarnated as a woman. * ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': When America Jara died, her lover Bennet Beeny had his brain transplanted to America's body so that he could continue to be with her. Additionally, he had used his old body to impregnate America's, so that he ended up giving birth to his own daughter.* An example from [[FrancoBelgianComics French Comics]] appears in ''Paulette'' by GeorgesWolinski and GeorgesPichard (1970): the old Joseph, a ''clochard'' that saved the eponymous protagonist, is suddenly magically transformed in a stunningly [[AttractiveBentGender attractive]] brunette (with the same age of the [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl blonde Paulette]]) and becomes her companion in a ton of misadventures. Though now Joseph is very younger, healthier and in a [[IncrediblyLamePun better physical shape]], she is absolutely [[BlessedWithSuck not pleased to be female]], she has still the mindset of an old ''clochard'' (with a little bit of mischief added) and she [[LampshadeHanging talks]] frequently as a [[OldSoldier veteran]] of the FirstWorldWar (still in a very female and young body). She likes to repeat "''I could be your grandpa''" and similar other sentences. Also [[InnocentFanserviceGirl naked]]. We have to punctuate that this comic is a hurricane of FanService. At the end of the first adventure with Paulette, Joseph is able to become the old man again: however he has a ton of photos and PinUp of his nude stunning female self (with dedication... to Joseph!) When [[TheIdealist Paulette]] is kidnapped again, Joseph is [[MostWritersAreMale transformed]] [[FirstLawOfGenderBending definitively]] in the brunette and forced to be involved in [[LonelyRichKid Paulette]]'s endless surreal misadventures. [[/folder]]

[[folder:Comic Strips]]* ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' parodied Creator/FranzKafka's ''Literature/TheMetamorphosis'', transforming Jason into a miniature version of his own sister during a week-long arc. Thankfully, it was AllJustADream.* ''ComicStrip/ShermansLagoon'' has Filmore the sea turtle turn into a female for a while in an early arc. Then he turns back.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Fairy Tales]]* In the Albanian story "[[http://www.albanianliterature.net/oral_lit1/OL1-07.html The Girl Who Became a Boy]]", uh...well, ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Similar to ''Disney/{{Mulan}}'', a girl pretends to be a boy to give her family honor. After adventures and even getting married, she gets cursed into changing gender. This is surprisingly congruent with Albanian culture. The practice is dwindling now, but Albanian girls could swear themselves to celibacy and be considered men socially. This was often done to make sure there would be a "male" head of the household.* An odd bit of folklore claims that kissing one's own elbow will cause a person to change sexes. (Did you just try it? [[SchmuckBait It works!]]) [[spoiler: No it doesn't - it's impossible to kiss one's own elbow. And before [[{{Munchkin}} anyone]] asks, it wouldn't work if your arm isn't connected to your body.]][[/folder]]

[[folder:Fan Works]]* ''Literature/HarryPotter'' works:** Played with in ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5353683/1/The_Girl_Who_Loved The Girl Who Loved]]'', via a crossover with ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf''.** In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4291790/1/Polyjuice_Memory_Charms_and_More Polyjuice, Memory Charms, and More]]'', Harry and Ginny [[FreakyFridayFlip switch bodies]] via Polyjuice Potion.** [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4437506/1/Harry-Potter-and-the-Gang-of-Giggling-Girls Harry Potter and the Gang of Giggling Girls]] has Harry hide out with some girls via a Polyjuice ring.** ''Fanfic/InThisWorldAndTheNext'' has Ron turn into a girl as a consequence of a GroinAttack by a troll. It MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext.** ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6211096/1/ChChChChanging ChChChChanging]]''.** [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8175132/1/Jamie_Evans_and_Fates_Fool Jamie Evans and Fate's Bitch]] is one of many super!Harry PeggySue fics, except when Harry comes back, he ends up in the wrong body.** In ''Fanfic/BecomingFemale'', Snape makes Harry drink a potion which turns him into the perfect female form.** ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10073299/1/Harry-Potter-And-The-Unexpected-Second-Life Harry Potter and the Unexpected Second Life]]'' is an alternate ending to ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]'' where both Harry and Ron after the Battle of Hogwarts are victims of the Widowmaker poison, which only affects men, and only survive by taking Polyjuice Potion and turning into Hermione, and end up having to stay female for several months while they still have the potion in their systems.** In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/232736/1/Ah-My-Witches-Though-Some-Previously-Could Ah! My Witches (Though Some Previously Could Not Be Considered Witches)]]'', Voldemort's newly invented immortally potion ends up turning himself, Draco and Lucius into [[Manga/AhMyGoddess Skuld, Urd and Mara]] respectively (Narcissa also takes the potion, but since she was already female, she just turns into Belldandy).** In ''FanFic/WaterAreobicsForTheAquaphobic'', during a poorly-planned Hogwarts field trip to [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Jusenkyo]] that resulted in most of the students being cursed into various forms, Ron falls into Spring of the Drowned Violent Tomboy, which curses him to turn into Akane Tendo whenever he gets splashed with cold water. Theodore Nott is similarly transformed into a siren, a kind of female monster like a humanoid equivalent of a black widow, and there was also a grandfather of Sirius' who apparently fell into the Spring of the Drowned Double-Jointed Concubine.* There are several fan-written sequels to the "Claire Kent: Super-Sister" ''ComicBook/{{Superboy}}'' comic book story (see above). In these stories, Clark's transformation into Claire is ''not'' AllJustADream. The first story in the series can be read [[http://www.fictionmania.tv/stories/readtextstory.html?storyID=3355098155346635372 on this Website]].* In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8092152/1/Blessing-In-Disguise Blessing in Disguise]]'', a ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' fanfic, the radioactive spider who bites Peter Parker is female, which results in Peter not only gaining spider powers, but turning into a girl.* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' mentions past instances of Loki transforming into a woman and one occasion, transforming Thor into a woman for about twelve hours. Apparently Thor himself wasn't overly fazed by it and is implied to have taken the opportunity to experiment. Harry shuts him down before he can go any further on the grounds of TooMuchInformation.* In the ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5453599/3/Kyonko-s-New-Life Kyonko's New Life]]'', Haruhi causes two universes where the cast are [[GenderFlip opposite genders]] to merge, resulting in those in the know of TheMasquerade switching minds with their [[GenderFlip alternate selves]]. Our poor OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent and CosmicPlaything Kyon is now a girl with ACupAngst who still has to deal with the ever insane and domineering alternate universe Haruki.* ''Fanfic/DoingItRightThisTime'': When Kaworu decided to send himself and the other Children back in time to prevent the end of the world, he thought he might avert to play his role in the Dead Sea Scrolls prophecies if he changed sexes. So he turned female.* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11431303/1/Red-White-and-Blue Red, White, and Blue]]'', a ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' crossover with the MarvelUniverse, in which a Halloween costume sticks Xander with Mystique's powers and base form, and an inability to resume his own appearance... so he morphs into Willow, and poses as her cousin.* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8532906/1/iFightCrimeWithVictorious iFight Crime With Victorious]]'', an ''Series/{{iCarly}}'' fanfic, has a character who is able to switch the genders of any character they come in contact with. This leads to an interesting conflict with the protagonists when [[spoiler: after the gender-switching bad guy is defeated, they are unable to change their genders back]].* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' works:** ''Fanfic/BecomingPonies'' has, as its core concept, fans of the show waking up with the bodies of the show's characters. Given the infamous PeripheryDemographic, this was inevitable.** [[ManipulativeBastard Tzeentch]] does this to [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 the God-Emperor]], mixed with BalefulPolymorph, at the end of their fight in ''Fanfic/TheGodEmpressOfPonykind''. The Emperor/Princess Celestia is pissed off at first, but get used to it after a few years.** A few non-canon stories in ''Fanfic/TheNonBronyverse'' involve this. One where TD gets turned into a pegasus mare by poison joke, and another where he becomes an alicorn princess. Both times he's rather horrified.** ''Fanfic/JusticeLeagueOfEquestria''; in one side story to ''Mare of Steel'', Rainbow Dash gets turned into a colt due to exposure to Red Kryptonite. She really doesn't want to stay a colt, especially when [[ItsAllAboutMe Maxima]] tries to take her[=/=]him as a mate.** ''Fanfic/WhenAPonyCalls'' revolves around a brony accidentally switching bodies with Lyra, a female unicorn. Later, [[spoiler:his original body winds up being gender bent by Twilight, as a result of Lyra not being able to handle male hormones. Also, it turns out being stuck in a magical environment is slowly turning his now female body into a pony too.]]** The ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' crossover ''Fanfic/MyLittleTitan'' has the Titans wind up in the bodies of the Mane 6. Naturally, this means the male Titans have this happen to them with the exception of Beast Boy, who ends up in Spike's body. Cyborg is not happy about this last part.** Navarone finds a pair of artifacts that change the gender of the user in ''FanFic/DiariesOfAMadman''. Occasionally they get used for disguise ([[PowerPerversionPotential as well as other things]]) -- at least until they break...* Fanfic/PokemonMysteryDungeonJournal did this for April Fool's Day 2013. None of the cast seemed to notice.* While uncommon, Thor fanfics where Loki turns into a woman are not too hard to find. It's usually explained [[spoiler: by the fact that he's a frost giant]] and inspired by Norse myths of the gender-changing god (see the "Norse" entry in the "Mythology" tab). [[http://savu0211.deviantart.com/gallery/43010983?offset=24 (All) Father Loki]] is one such fic.* ''Fanfic/TheInfiniteLoops'' will occasionally reboot a looper as the opposite gender. Twilight speculates it happens roughly two percent of the time. Some loopers do this more than others, such as [[VideoGame/MassEffect Commander Shepard]] and [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys Bonnie the Bunny]].* ''[[http://web.archive.org/web/20011225065823/http://www.fortunecity.com/lavendar/pimlico/131/hhalf.htm Joel 1/2]]'': An invention turns [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Joel]] into a woman. It should be noted that it was the author's idea for how the show could keep Joel himself on with Joel Hodgson (His actor) leaving (It was written before Mike officially became host).* If there's a male Pretty Cure in a [[FanWorks/PrettyCure Pretty Cure fanmake]], there's a 50 / 50 chance this trope will occur (either that or DraggedIntoDrag).* In the ''Film/TheMatrix'' fanfic ''Fanfic/BringingMeToLife'' two male characters, Apoc and David, are [[{{Reincarnation}} reincarnated as female.]]* This is completely and totally [[AvertedTrope averted]] in the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' / ''ComicBook/PowerGirl'' fanfic ''FanFic/OriginStory''. It isn't a gender-bender story at all, despite the fact that you don't find that out until 13 or so chapters in. If all you read in those first dozen chapters, however, you'll come away thinking that this is a story about Xander Harris turned into a girl. Except its not. Its about a girl who has a sort of psychotic break and thinks she's Xander Harris.** To be more specific, the protagonist of the story appears to initially be Xander trapped in the body of Power Girl, with an Interlude also showing ''her'' stuck in his body. It eventually turns out that, because of both Xander and Karen's unique natures, the decision to dress as her on Halloween created a sort of anomaly within the multiverse. When the spell ended, Harris and Power Girl were both sent back to their respective universes, but along with this copies were created - a girl with Karen Starr's body but the memories of Xander Harris, and a boy with Xander's body and Karen's memories; both are essentially newborns, each deposited in universes where they now live as their "home" worlds (Marvel for the former, Alexandra Harris; Stargate for the latter), and while the latter's story is not followed it's suggested to be somewhat similar to Alex's (in terms of finding oneself and such).* When ''Anime/YuriOnIce'' was announced, a lot of Western fans thought it meant [[YuriGenre that kind of yuri]], and were surprised to see that it's actually about ''male'' figure skating. In Japanese, all [[OneSteveLimit three]] versions of "Yuri" are written differently... making [[YuriGenre Yuri]] [[YuriOnIce On Ice]] a convenient pun for doujinshi in which the male characters are genderbent, at least one of which does exist. * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2306129/1/Lisa-%3C!--C2--%3EBD Lisa 1/2]]'' has this happen to both Bart and Lisa, after they fall into [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf the spring of drowned girl at Jusenkyou]]. Bart turns into a five-year-old Chinese girl named Ping, while Lisa, who went in after him, turns into Bart.* ''Fanfic/{{Domoverse}}'': Ron, who turns into a girl over the course of several hours after getting hit by a car and his mutant power manifesting.** Estelle becomes a boy over the course of a year thanks to her mutation.** And Ruth, who used to be [[spoiler:Isaac]]. This was done very much against her will.* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'':** ''Fanfic/{{Kitsune}}'': Conner Jeremy Fox, a 39+ year old man, [[FountainOfYouth age-regressed]] into a teenager girl.** ''Fanfic/{{Maat}}'': 70+ year old Doctor Daniel Edward O'Neill transforms into Dani, a [[FountainOfYouth 20-something]] female priestess of Ma'at.* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3661478/1/The-Wrath-of-Remy-Buxaplenty The Wrath of Remy Buxaplenty]]'', a malicious wish from Remy turns Timmy into his Timantha form. The FirstLawOfGenderBending also applies, as Remy wishes that Timmy would remain female permanently.* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3522356/1/Take-the-Green-and-Go Take the Green and Go]]'' [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Ranma]] is cursed with a female form, as in canon. Unlike canon, however, said female form is [[WesternAnimation/KimPossible Shego]], who had been sent back in time and drowned at Jusenkyo. Will Du later falls into Spring of Drowned Girl (the spring Ranma fell into is Spring of Drowned Demon Woman) and is cursed with the form of a blonde-haired girl.* In ''Fanfic/InheritanceOfCardsAndDemons'', this is the power of the Switch card, as [[Manga/BlueExorcist Rin]] finds out when it turns him into a girl named Sora.* One of the main characters of ''FanFic/BoyScoutsOneHalf'', Matthew Atanian, fell into the same cursed spring as Ranma and thus has the same curse. A later introduced character, Perfume, is a woman who fell into Spring of Drowned Boy, and thus has the inverse curse.* In ''Fanfic/GGKronosButIHaveForesight'', the main character, Evan Gamble, is turned into a girl named Eve upon being pulled into the ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' world. This is due to Artemis and Hera refusing to accept the help of a guy when a girl could do it just as well, and Aphrodite suggesting this compromise.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]* The 1940 Hal Roach feature ''Literature/{{Turnabout}}'' concerns a bickering husband and wife, each of whom wishes they could have the "easy" life of the other gender. Their wish is subsequently granted by an enchanted Indian sculpture sitting on their mantelpiece. By the end of the film things are seemingly back to normal... until the Indian god confesses that he screwed up and informs the husband that [[MisterSeahorse he's now pregnant]]. The film was an adaptation of Thorne Smith's 1931 novel, which was later adapted as a short-lived TV series in 1978.* ''Film/{{Zerophilia}}'', directed by Martin Curland, concerns a young man named Luke who obtains the rare Z chromosome after a sexual encounter with a mysterious woman which turns him into a zerophiliac, a person whose sex changes with the act of sex (either by your lonesome or with another person). Sex with another zerophile induces [[ShapeshifterModeLock mode locking]]. * Several movies have used the same basic plot, wherein a womanizing playboy dies and [[{{Reincarnation}} is reincarnated ''as'' a woman]]:** In ''Film/GoodbyeCharlie'', Tony Curtis becomes Debbie Reynolds.** ''Cleo/Leo'' wasn't a porn movie, but it was made by a cast and crew of adult film veterans, and explores the sexual aspects of the transformation more frankly than most movies of this type.** In Creator/BlakeEdwards' ''Film/Switch1991'', Perry King becomes Ellen Barkin.** In ''Film/{{Sam}}'', Brock Harris becomes Natalie Knepp. Unlike the other versions Harris's character doesn't actually ''die'' (he is transformed into Knepp thanks to a mysterious drink he got at TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday) but otherwise the film follows the same plot.* ''Film/AllOfMe'' uses the "shared body" variation, as Lily Tomlin's character dies and partially inhabits Steve Martin's body.* The hypochondriac Bernard Cutting in ''Film/CarryOnMatron'' has his body examined by a fellow doctor in the hospital, who points out that his pelvis is rather feminine-shaped, which makes him think that he is probably gender-bending. Unsurprisingly, this trope is subverted, but he soon relaxes after visiting the cuckoolander Dr Goode, who's just as uncertain about the situation as Bernard is.* ''Film/TheHotChick'' has a lowlife thief (played by Rob Schneider) accidentally swapping bodies with a snotty teenage girl. * There are several films which take the story of ''Literature/DrJekyllAndMrHyde'' and, while keeping Jekyll male have Hyde be a beautiful but evil woman:** [[Film/HammerHorror Hammer's]] ''Film/DoctorJekyllAndSisterHyde'', exploited the startling similarity in appearance of leads Ralph Bates and Martine Beswick.** PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/DrJekyllAndMsHyde'', starring Tim Daly of ''Series/{{Wings}}''.** The obscure spoof ''Film/DrHeckylAndMrHype'' puts the doctor through a number of transformations, including one where he becomes a woman.* In the sex comedy ''Film/SexualChemistry'', a chemist's attempt to create a sex-enhancing drug backfires, turning him into a woman. He keeps changing back and forth over the course of the movie. HilarityEnsues.* ''Film/SomethingSpecial'' (a.k.a. ''Willy/Milly'') is a rare female-to-male example, where a tomboyish teenager wakes up to find herself magically transformed into a male after making a wish during a solar eclipse.* In ''Film/{{Splice}}'', Ginger, one of the two [[LEGOGenetics transgenic creatures]] created by Clive and Elsa, turns from female to male due to hormonal changes, and fights Fred (the other transgenic creature, who was male from the start) during a press conference that unleashes [[BloodSplatteredInnocents a shower of blood]] on the front row. [[spoiler:This turns out to be {{foreshadowing}} for similar changes in [[CuteMonsterGirl Dren]].]]* In ''Film/JurassicPark'', the all-female dinosaur population gradually has some of them turn male. This is due to the fragmented dino DNA that created them being "repaired" with the DNA of a frog species that can change gender.* ''Film/ItsABoyGirlThing'' gives bickering teenagers Nell and Woody a FreakyFridayFlip via a {{Mayincatec}} God.* The Hong Kong action comedy ''Film/HolyWeapon'' features this towards the end. In the movie, [[OldMaster Ghost Doctor]] creates "Feminine Wine" for an intersexed woman, warning that if a man drinks even just a drop, he'd become a woman. They then have the male IdiotHero Ng Tung look after the brew without telling him what it is or what it does. Ng Tung unwittingly drinks the brew, thinking it's a nutritious soup. Then [[ItMakesSenseInContext his penis tells him]] that from now on, whenever his body gets wet, he'll turn into a woman. He'll become a man again when he dries his body. [[spoiler:This becomes useful during the final battle, when the BigBad's {{Mooks}} throw Ng Tung into the river as a sacrifice, only for him to emerge fully female, complete with {{Gainaxing}} and GirlishPigtails. Thus, he/she becomes the Seven Virgins' EleventhHourRanger (since one of them is trapped in a net throughout the battle).]]* In ''Film/{{Orlando}}'', the title character wakes up as a woman halfway through the movie and is completely unfazed by the change. Which is more than you can say for everyone around her.* In ''Film/TheGamersDorknessRising'', Luster is constantly switching between female and male due to her player forgetting and being reminded of her true gender. It's [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] several times, both in-character and out-of-character.* In ''Film/FrankensteinCreatedWoman'', Doctor Frankenstein successfully transfers the soul of a man into the just-drowned body of a deformed young woman. Frankenstein fixes up the woman's body, making her beautiful, but as with most of the Doctor's experiments, things start going downhill from there.* ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'': One of the Gremlins ingests a jar of AppliedPhlebotinum in the genetics lab that immediately turns it into a Girl Gremlin, who then proceeds to become an AbhorrentAdmirer to the jerkass head of security. This is one of the more peculiar examples by the standards of the trope, since the Gremlins are an asexual species that reproduces more like a fungus.* In the movie ''Film/ScoobyDoo'', the gang's souls switch bodies at one point, causing Fred, in Daphne's body, to remark "Hey, I can look at myself ''naked!''" Daphne was ''not'' amused.* In the sequel, ''Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed'', Shaggy drinks an unknown potion and transforms (from the neck down) into a woman, for a little while. This turns out to be a ChekhovsGun as [[spoiler: the villain was using it to disguise his identity]]* The Australian feature ''Film/{{Dating the Enemy}}'' takes the classic set up of a bickering couple who get an opportunity (in a FreakyFridayFlip) to "see the world through the other's eyes". * In ''Film/{{Gozu}}'', a dead Yakuza brother returns as a young attractive woman with no explanation given why.* ''Film/{{RIPD}}'': To everyone living Roy looks like a ([[MsFanservice beautiful]]) young woman. [[spoiler: Later we see Proctor has a male avatar and Nick's second avatar is a girl scout.]]* The movie ''Film/JumanjiWelcomeToTheJungle'' is about a group of teenagers who get sucked into a video game and are stuck in the bodies of the avatar they chose. The group's stereotypical popular girl, Bethany, ends up selecting Professor Shelly Oberon which to her surprise and horror is an over weight middle-aged man (played by ''Creator/JackBlack'').[[/folder]]

[[folder:Literature]]* Averted in ''Literature/{{Masques}}''; Aralorn is a shapeshifter who can change into, among other things, a ''mouse'', but she can't do men. Whenever she needs to look like a man, she goes for an androgynous woman instead. It is implied it is mostly her own unwillingness to do cross-gender shapes that is responsible for this; she has to practice for the magic to work properly. * The premise of the ''Literature/SexGates'' trilogy by Darrell Bain & Jeanine Berry: Portals appear at random all over the world. If they don't make you vanish when you pass through them, they cause you to emerge as a [[AttractiveBentGender flawlessly healthy 18-year-old... of the opposite gender]]. HilarityEnsues. Well, not so much hilarity as ''extreme'' societal upheaval. The Middle Eastern response -- namely, chucking various imams and abusive husbands through, was ''highly'' [[TakeThat amusing.]] Other aspects, like the TransEqualsGay implications of homosexuals lining up for their Gender Bender or women eager for the chance to be the "superior" sex, may be less amusing.* In [[Creator/IainBanks Iain M. Banks]]'s [[Literature/TheCulture Culture]] novels, citizens of the Culture are able to change their gender at will. The process is slow, taking several months, but is done entirely using consciously-released hormone, not requiring any external assistance. The change is so complete that they begin to produce the appropriate sex cells, and a newly-female person can get pregnant and give birth. Most people in the Culture will spend a year or two as the opposite sex at some point in their lives, just to see what it's like. A popular expression of love is for a couple to conceive a child, then change gender and conceive another, so both partners are pregnant with the other's child at the same time (they are also able to temporarily arrest the development of the embryo/fetus, so that they can time it so they come to term together -- if the embryo is only just conceived, they can even keep it alive while they become male).* In Gael Baudino's ''Dragon'' trilogy, an enemy wizard does this to an entire troop of soldiers from an extremely sexist country. The transformation is permanent, and the characters' adaptation to their new state is dealt with at length; the new women's situations are dealt with with surprising sensitivity, given that at the time Baudino was a Dianic Wiccan.* Princess Ozma of L. Frank Baum's ''[[Literature/LandOfOz Oz]]'' series was magically changed into a boy as a baby, and grew up this way [[spoiler:(under the name "Tip")]] until the spell was discovered and she was changed back. The fact that their personalities are total opposites has led to at least ''a century'' of many fans trying to explain this away via or {{Retcon}}. {{Lampshade}}d when the Gump mentions he thought Ozma was nicer when she was a boy. The Gump also mentions that Ozma didn't much like him talking since she changed her name.* Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold's ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'':** ''Literature/ACivilCampaign'' has, as a significant character, Lord Dono Vorrutyer... formerly ''Lady Donna'' Vorrutyer.** Not to mention Bel Thorne the hermaphrodite, who, while technically both male and female, is quite fond of switching its perceived gender around just to mess with people's heads.* A common motif in Creator/JackChalker books. Usually it's a) to show just how indomitable the transformed character is, and b) to showcase the [[MoralEventHorizon sheer evil]] of the individuals responsible... and make their eventual {{Karmic Death}}s--or at least karmic ''comeuppance'' -- all the more appropriate. Appropriately enough given how deeply Chalker is associated with this trope, his immortal hero Nathan Brazil's last act in Chalker's final book is to "accidentally" inflict a GenderBender on ''himself''; it may have been a FreudianSlip on the character's part.* Creator/NeilGaiman has played with this trope a few times:** In ''Literature/{{Stardust}}'', Bernard the goat herder is first turned into a goat by the Big Bad, and later into a woman to pose as her daughter.** The short story "Changes" has Gender Bending as its premise, as a cancer cure called Reboot that works by altering the patients DNA has the side-effect of transforming the patient into a fully functional and fertile member of the opposite gender. The story takes place over several decades, analyzing how society would react to the effects introduced by such a drug. The middle eastern response is especially horrific, in contrast to the ''Sex Gates'' example above.* The entire basis of the plot of James Alan Gardner's novel ''[[Literature/TheLeagueOfPeoplesVerse Commitment Hour]]''.* This is the ending twist of the Creator/CliveBarker short story "The Madonna" from ''The Books of Blood''. All men who enter The Madonna's lair become women. Though it can be terrifying for some people, he/she ended up better than [[Film/TheMidnightMeatTrain most]] [[Film/{{Candyman}} other characters]].* Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin's ''Literature/TheLeftHandOfDarkness'' is basically "what if everyone were of negotiable sex".* An important point in Creator/CharlesStross' ''[[Literature/{{Accelerando}} Glasshouse]]'' is that the characters come from a society where {{Gender Bender}}s are ridiculously easy. It's implied that most people tend to settle on a particular gender for the sake of convenience; the protagonist is usually male, but doesn't even remember what his original body's gender was.* This is pretty much the point of Virginia Woolf's ''Literature/OrlandoABiography''.* The middle part of ''[[Literature/TheElminsterSeries Elminster: The Making of a Mage]]'' is basically "The Making of a Priestess". When Elminster agreed to serve the goddess of magic, he finds himself teleported without any warning to an unknown location and turned into a lass-"to see the world through the eyes of a woman" ([[spoiler:and to hide him from [[TheMagocracy Magelords]] out for his blood]]), having ''nothing'' on her save half of a broken ancestral sword, and no magic abilities save innate magic vision. Later he learned the spell himself. In the next book, Mystra pushes a silent sex-inverting spell into his mind, to give him a way to circumvent controls built into his body. Which he used while embraced... er... [[KindRestraints restrained]] by his current LoveInterest, no less. "Well met. Call me Elmara, please!"* Several ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' characters do cross-gender human morphs. Marco morphs the female governor in one book, and presumably, Cassie and Rachel morph male when they acquire sailors for a mission on an aircraft carrier. Rachel's eagle, acquired between books 1 and 2, is male, as is the grizzly bear that she acquired in book 7. Marco acquires a girl wolf in book 3, while Jake, Marco and Ax all become a female skunk in book 9, and Rachel and Cassie (along with the four boys) acquire a male polar bear in book 25. Tobias acquires Taylor, a human female, in book 43.** This is the plot point of one book, where Visser Three morphs into a female human and masquerades as Tobias' cousin Aria [[spoiler: in order to capture him after he is read a letter from his father, Prince Elfangor]]. Visser Three spends most of his time in this form during the book, just in case Tobias is morph-capable and spied on him in animal form; Tobias only figures out the trick because Visser Three is too good at acting like a human woman [[spoiler: and checks "her" hair in a mirror, which is automatic for most women but not necessarily for one who's been living in Africa for years, which was what "Aria" was supposed to be doing for most of Tobias' life]].* In ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'', after [[spoiler:Balthamel]] dies, he is resurrected as the beautiful woman, [[spoiler:Aran'gar. This is situational irony, because Balthamel had been known as a tremendous lecher]].* Many characters in ''Literature/TheMemoryWars'' remember past lives, and several have explicitly lived some lives as genders other than their current one. In ''Locked Within'', one of Nathan's key memories [[spoiler: is of his life as Katherine O'Reilly, a renowned monster-hunter whose lover was hanged, having been framed for murder]].* In the 1952 French short story ''Héloïse'' by Marcel Aymé, the thirty-five-year old Martin turns into the title female character each evening, causing her to clash with his wife. Things get complicated when Martin falls in love with Héloïse, and when Héloïse gets out and sleeps with other men. At the end of the story, Martin's wife tells him that Héloïse is pregnant; and that Martin[=/=]Héloïse will give birth to a boy who will soon turn into a girl. Ouch.* In Creator/WalterJonWilliams' {{Cyberpunk}} novel ''Hardwired'', the rich elite often transfer their consciousness to a younger body to extend their lives. The book introduces one who used to be an elderly man but got himself transferred to a young, female body to live his sexual fantasies of submission and vulnerability. S/He gets what s/he asked for and more when [[spoiler:Sarah, one of the protagonists seduces, and then murders him/her.]]* In the novel ''Cycler'' by Lauren [=McLaughlin=], the main character Jill changes into a boy, Jack, before (or during) her period.* In the ''Literature/{{Safehold}}'' series by David Weber, Nimue Alban (or, specifically, the robot with Nimue Alban's personality) crafts the persona of Merlin Athrawes. Her robotic body has the [[PowerPerversionPotential capability to shift genders]], which she uses to complete the image.* The whole idea of a man being turned into his own fantasy woman is [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] by Angela Carter in ''Literature/ThePassionOfNewEve''.* In ''Literature/AndEternity'', Orlene is temporarily transformed into a man to make a point.* The protagonist of ''Literature/DeathsMaster'' by Creator/TanithLee is a WonderChild who can switch at will between male and female.* Creator/TanithLee also explores gender-switching in her ''Literature/BitingTheSun'' series, where changing bodies and genders is almost as easy as changing clothes. Officially you're only supposed to change once every thirty days, but nobody pays attention to that.* In Judith Tarr's ''Avaryan Rising'' series, a young nobleman from one nation is turned female—by way of a dangerous magic ritual—so that s/he can marry the prince of another nation for diplomatic reasons. [[AttractiveBentGender Predictably, s/he's smokin' hawt in female form]].* [[spoiler: Malahide]] in the ''Literature/{{Havemercy}}'' series.* In the ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' series, Sasch Vykos was once Myca Vykos, but changed genders via Vicissitude.* Polyjuice Potion in the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' series has been stated to do this, although we never actually learn how far the gender bending goes. Some examples in the series:** In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'', Crabbe and Goyle take the Polyjuice Potion many times to pose as first year girls, in order to allow Malfoy to repair the Vanishing Cabinet.** In ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Goblet of Fire]]'', Barty Crouch, Jr. escaped Azkaban by swapping identities with his mother via Polyjuice Potion.** ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]'', in order to get Harry out of Privet Drive, five of his friends ([[AndZoidberg and Mundungus Fletcher]]) disguise themselves as Harry using Polyjuice potion. Two of the decoy Harrys are Hermione and Fleur. Amusingly, Fleur isn't too happy about being Harry; after the transformation is complete, she tells Bill not to look at her because she's hideous.* In the Creator/MercedesLackey and Creator/PiersAnthony novel, ''If I Pay Thee Not In Gold'', there be demons. They look ordinary, if beautiful, and with awesome eyes, but normal for normals where they come from. What distinguishes them is immortality... and gender bending when they have sex. Imagine losing your virginity and learning that. How can demons die? By being killed, or if a partner is unfaithful.* In ''Literature/WarriorCats'', the others often can't keep up with the massive cast, especially characters who were created just to flesh out the allegiances, so this has happened to several characters (most notably Sedgewhisker and Rowanclaw).* In ''[[Literature/GarrettPI Dread Brass Shadows]]'', Garrett encounters a couple of characters who magically disguise themselves as other people, sometimes of the opposite sex. Finding the corpse of one of them, he's squicked out to discover that the dead man is reverting from his assumed female form to his natural one only gradually, from top to bottom.* In ''Literature/{{Sphere}}'', the protagonist tests out his reality-warping abilities on some nearby mummified corpses, changing men to women and women to men. That's right: gender-bending ''corpses''.* In Creator/CordwainerSmith's Instrumentality short story, "The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal," the Arachosians [[spoiler:made their women into man-like things (klopts) on purpose]]. It was a FateWorseThanDeath.* In ''[[PeterPan Peter Pan in Scarlet]]'', the former Lost Boys must wear their children's clothing in order to become children again and return to Neverland. Unfortunately for Tootles, he has no sons, so must wear his daughter's ballet dress, and turns into a girl.* A... rather awkward version happens in ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear: The Brain Spiders''. Jabba the Hutt has a weird gambit going where he removes the brains of major criminals, turns their bodies in for the reward money, and installs their brains into the bodies of hapless people in his fortress - ''their'' brains end up in [[BrainInAJar spider droids]], which sucks. A particularly large and brutish killer's intended body is set free, so he gets put into Tash Arranda, a not-yet-fourteen-year-old girl. At first he doesn't mind much, but soon he starts complaining to Jabba about it. Jabba is just amused. The narration, once the point of view character figures it out, calls him "he".* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' dragons are described by Maester Aemon as "neither male nor female, [...] but now one and now the other, as changeable as flame." His knowledge of dragons being able change sex at will comes from a rare book from scholar Septon Barth, who also served as Hand to Jaehaerys I. Interestingly during the books several dragons are referred to by a specific gender, for instance Balerion is referred to as male by Daenerys and Tyrion refers to Syrax as a "she-dragon", suggesting some dragons may remain a single fixed gender.* In ''Literature/TheDollmaker'', Stephen [[spoiler: is reincarnated into an artificial female body, and in doing so, all of his flaws are stripped away. That's the happy ending.]]* Ian Covey, the doppelganger in ''{{Literature/Everyman}}'' takes the form of two different women.* In the ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'' series, the Tleilaxu Face Dancers were shape-shifters with the ability to change gender.* For the people of Greg Egan's novella ''Oceanic'', who otherwise seem mostly human, coïtus ends with the penis transferring itself to the other partner. The protagonist has one sibling; each of their parents is mother to one and father to the other. (The people's origin legend suggests that their ancestors had been disembodied software for a long time before creating their bodies.)* K. Lynn's ''His Womanly Ways'' employs the body-horror route with a gradual genderswap for the main character. Womanizer gets cursed to know what it's like for a woman, and he slowly starts turning into one. The change is [[FirstLawOfGenderBending found to be permanent]], but the novel subverts the typical genderswap tropes by utilizing an underlying transgender theme.* In the novel ''Girl'' by David Thomas, Bradley Barker (the main character) goes into hospital to have his wisdom teeth removed and is given a sex-change operation by mistake. [[FirstLawOfGenderBending The change is permanent]] and the main character [[SecondLawOfGenderBending does get used to being a woman]] [[ThirdLawOfGenderBending through typical dress and actions]], but the novel is surprisingly respectful of the transgender topic despite the comedic plot set-up.* Alison Tyler goes the typical bodyswap route in ''Tiffany Twisted''. A woman and her boyfriend switch bodies and explore each other in intimate and personal ways. Of course, the male-turned-female character uses the opportunity to [[ManIFeelLikeAWoman feel himself up]]. The point of the swap in this case is to teach the protagonists [[AnAesop a lesson]] -- namely, to be more respectful and considerate of each other.* One of the titular ''Literature/MidnightsChildren'' can do this by immersing themselves in water.* ''LordOfLight'': The Masters of Karma regularly reincarnate ordinary individuals in bodies whose sex differs from the individual's gender, especially if they want to use it as a punishment. Those who have ascended to the Heavenly City, however, get to choose their sex with each new body; when he first confronts Sam [[ItMakesSenseInContext and is forced to answer Sam's questions about the gods while sinking into quicksand]], Yama mentions that the current Goddess of Dance at the time had previously been a God of War.** The original Brahma was a lesbian whose birth name was Madaleine; she [[TransEqualsGay chose to get transferred into a supremely masculine body]][[note]]it is likely that Zelazny didn't see the UnfortunateImplications in this[[/note]] time and again, but still had a nagging fear of not being man enough to attract women. ** When [[spoiler: Kali]] is asked to become the new Brahma, she agrees, even though it means [[spoiler: breaking off her marriage to Yama in the middle of their honeymoon]]. She is later reincarnated as a female again, under the name [[spoiler:Murga, who Yama introduces to Kubera as his daughter]].** Helba, the Monarch of Thieves, alternates sex with each incarnation. When Sam approaches her to steal his belt back from the museum of the gods, she initially refuses, stating that she doesn't perform thefts when female.* In ''Literature/MufarosBeautifulDaughters'', [[spoiler: The king poses as an old woman as part of the SecretTestOfCharacter he gives Manyara and Nyasha]].* Invoked in ''Literature/TheMachineriesOfEmpire''. When Cheris wakes up after her petition to use Jedao is approved, she hears a male voice in her head and sees a men when looking in a mirror, and her initial assumption is that her superiors have changed her sex for some reason. Later she learns that this is simply how she perceives Jedao.* In ''Literature/PrincessHolyAura'', a 35-year-old man's choice to become a 14-year-old girl is one of the key points of the story.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Live-Action TV]]* Delenn from ''Series/BabylonFive'' was originally [[WhatCouldHaveBeen supposed to have been]] male or neuter in the first season, before entering the chrysalis and becoming female, but the idea was dropped. Sources differ as to whether the exact reason was one of these, or perhaps a combination:** They couldn't get Mira Furlan's (electronically altered) voice as "Male Delenn" quite right.** Furlan ''refused'' to play Delenn as a male.** They did use this idea in the original pilot as aired, but dropped it for the series and later rebroadcasts of the pilot have Mira Furlan's unaltered voice. Unfortunately, there's nothing that can reasonably be done about the Male Delenn makeup (which looks remarkably like the original G'Kar makeup, particularly noticeable in their scenes together).* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''** Invoked by [[CovertPervert Willow]], who suggests this as one of the possibilities after Buffy touches a demon and is set to take on a part of it.** In the episode "Him", an unpopular boy uses a magic jacket to make any woman who sees him wearing it [[LoveIsInTheAir fall madly in love with him]]; the magic takes effect on Willow, who (after being reminded she's a lesbian) declares that she will "prove" her love by turning him into a girl. Fortunately (or unfortunately), Xander interrupts her before the magic ritual is completed.** Later that same season, Willow is briefly cursed with a {{Glamour}} that changes her into a double of Warren [[note]](the man responsible for the death of her first girlfriend, Tara)[[/note]]. The curse also causes [[TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody Warren's personality to gradually override Willow's own]] -- and eventually influences her to try to re-create his attack on her friends. * [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnvzAyZIqRc Occasionally]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYxy0o3FlIE used]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NL6IqubGzo on]] ''Series/TheCarolBurnettShow''. [[CaptainObvious It's played for laughs, of course.]]* Occurs in ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' as part of a spell to help the sisters trap a succubus. Prue makes [[AttractiveBentGender quite a handsome man]].* ''Series/DoctorWho'':** This trope has been used a few times in the case of the Time Lords, who change bodies upon death:*** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoTheCurseOfFatalDeath "The Curse of Fatal Death"]], an AffectionateParody created for the 1999 UsefulNotes/ComicRelief appeal night, the Doctor cycles through all of his remaining regenerations in quick succession, with the final one being Creator/JoannaLumley. The Doctor's female companion (who was engaged to him) is understandably [[UnsettlingGenderReveal rather disturbed]]; his arch-nemesis, [[JumpingTheGenderBarrier the Master, somewhat less so]]. The former enemies walk off arm in arm.*** In the AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho AU episode "Exile", the Doctor regenerates as a woman (played by Arabella Weir).*** An unseen character called the Corsair was known for this. "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife The Doctor's Wife]]", in which the Corsair is first mentioned, is the first confirmation in the TV series that a Time Lord can regenerate as the opposite sex:--->'''Doctor:''' See that snake? The mark of the Corsair. Fantastic bloke. He had that snake as a tattoo in every regeneration. Didn't feel like himself unless he had the tattoo... or ''her''self a couple of times. Oh hoo, she was a ''bad'' girl!*** Creator/NeilGaiman (who wrote the episode) also confirms the Corsair having a couple of female regenerations in ''The Brilliant Book 2012''. The Corsair also gets a reference in the 2012 novel adaptation of "Shada", in which the Fourth Doctor alternates between male and female pronouns while gossiping about him/her to Romana.*** The book ''Engines of War'' reveals that the Time Lord Borusa, seen exclusively in male bodies in the series, had also had at least one female incarnation from before the Doctor knew him. In the ''AudioPlay/{{Gallifrey}}'' series, an alternate universe is also seen in which Borusa is female (played by Creator/KatyManning, of all people).*** The first on-screen Time Lord example is [[spoiler:Missy, the BigBad of the revival's eighth series, who is revealed to be the female incarnation of The Master]]. The trope is notably shown in a very positive way, and the character happily identifies and presents as female, without any kind of angst about the change. *** Later, [[spoiler:in the finale of series nine, the commander of Gallifrey's armed forces, a white man, regenerates into a black woman, commenting afterwards that her previous self had been her only male incarnation to date.]] The trope is again shown in a positive way, with no angst over the change.*** The Doctor himself briefly ''thought'' he had become female when he regenerated into Creator/MattSmith, and noticed how long his new hair's bangs were. Some hasty feeling of his neck confirmed the presence of an Adam's apple, to his evident relief.*** The Doctor ''did'' finally become female in 2017, when it was announced that Creator/JodieWhittaker had been cast as the 13th Doctor.** In the Creator/TomBaker-era story "The Hand of Fear", the Kastrian Eldrad regenerates from a single hand into a female body, apparently based on Sarah Jane's. Upon being injected with a deadly poison, she regenerates, into a male body. The Doctor is surprised, and Eldrad calls him out on his confusion, saying he should know all about regeneration and its possibility for changing gender (making this the first implication in the series that regeneration could produce a sex change). ** Zig-zagged in the episode "New Earth". The villainous Cassandra (a [[{{Transgender}} trans woman]] from the future who surgically altered her body so often that only her eyes and a flap of skin remain) tries to stave off her death by [[BodySnatcher transferring her consciousness]] into the body of Rose Tyler; the Doctor quickly sees through the ruse and orders Cassandra to leave Rose's body, and she complies...by transferring herself into ''his'' body. Cassandra is predictably amused by her new found maleness, reveling in her handsome figure and new "parts" ("And hardly ''used!''"). Circumstances force her to abandon the Doctor's body, however, and she spends the rest of the episode [[BodySurf jumping]] between numerous female hosts before settling on the body of her male servant. ** At the end of Part 1 of "The End of Time", the Master uses an AppliedPhlebotinum machine to rewrite the genetic code of every human on Earth (save for Wilf and Donna), changing the world's population into clones of himself -- [[CaptainObvious the women included]]. This results in some hilariously OTT scenes, including an [[EvilGrin evilly-grinning]] Master clone in a [[PinkIsFeminine pretty pink dress]] and an entire ''roomful'' of Masters (many of them in female clothing) hopping and applauding excitedly for one of their duplicates. * A variation in ''Series/EarthFinalConflict''. The fifth and final season has the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Atavus]] turn a revived Taelon (Taelons are a OneGenderRace descended from the Atavus) into a female Atavus. [[BigBad Howlyn]] even asks Zo'or how he (the masculine pronoun is traditionally used to refer to any Taelon due to humanity's male-dominated culture) would feel as a female. Zo'or doesn't care as long as he survives. After the transformation, ''she'' absolutely delights in being a female and a sexual being. One of the first things she does is have sex with a human... before sucking out his life force. Howlyn is not amused. For reference, Zo'or was always played by a woman, so the choice of sex as an Atavus was easy in RealLife. Of course, for the most part, Zo'or still acts like the same obnoxious {{Jerkass}} he/she always was.* In ''Series/EmeraldCity'', Tip, Mombi's ward, takes "medicine" to suppress an apparent illness. [[spoiler:When he escapes Mombi with help from Jack and Dorothy, Tip transforms into a girl overnight. Turns out the magic was to keep his/her identity safe]].* The 1998 version of ''Series/FantasyIsland'' has the episode "Estrogen," in which (among other things) a man asks Mr. Rourke to give him a better understanding of women. Guess [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpPAFWNhuvQ what happens]].* In ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', guess what Sylar first turns into after getting the ability to transform?* The made-for-TV movie ''Ice Angel'' is about a male hockey player (Matt) who dies prematurely and is brought back to life in the body of female figure skater (Sarah) so he can win the Olympic gold medal that he was supposed to win the first around. It's actually a remake of ''Here Comes Mr. Jordan'' (like the film ''Heaven Can Wait''), with the GenderFlip adding DifferentForGirls as an added complication on top of the original's FishOutOfWater hijinks.* In the first episode of the Argentinian show Lalola, a stereotypical male womanizer is transformed into a woman. The series explores his subsequent misadventures. The show has become an international success, with reboots in at least 6 different languages.* In one episode of ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'', Lois, tired of her three boys constantly arguing, imagines them as girls instead, in a world where everything's better and they give her unconditional love. But she realizes by the end of the episode that girls would be bad in different ways -- bitchy and keeping all their secrets from her -- and that her boys love her in their own genuine way. (The episode is also funny to watch to see Hal in a fatsuit and Francis, the eldest son, as a girl -- unlike the other three, Christopher Masterson actually played the female version of himself.)* In the first season of ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', it happened to Kimberly and Billy when his machine went haywire, subjecting them to a FreakyFridayFlip. (Billy fixed it before the situation at the end of the episode, [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot although some fans thought the plot could have been explored much further.]])* In the third season of ''Series/{{Misfits}}'' [[spoiler:Curtis]] gains the ability to change genders.* ''Series/{{Monkey}}'' (based off the Chinese epic ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'') features this on occasion:** Buddha, in order to become more "compassionate" appears in his female incarnation.** The bodhisattva Quan-yin (Guanyin) the Compassionate is only seen in her "male incarnation", in pale blue robes and a lacy veil.** The priest Tripitaka is a man, played by a woman, who when entering the City of Nightmares is magically transformed into a woman as a disguise. (And is promptly hit on by Pigsy).** Monkey transforms into a woman in order to trick the Unicorn King.* The Gumbies on ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' briefly turn into girl-Gumbies at the end of "The Buzz Aldrin Show" for no particular reason. Their only reaction upon turning back is "OOH! THAT WAS FUN!"* ''Series/RedDwarf''** The hologram Arnold Rimmer changes his appearance to that of Lister's dead love interest, Kochanski. Even though he is a hologram he is quite able to... [[ManIFeelLikeAWoman touch himself]].** Holly redrew himself after an encounter with his DistaffCounterpart. [[spoiler:And became male again]].* ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' has an episode where Sabrina, Hilda and Zelda use a magical potion in the form of a soft drink called "Boy Brew" to become temporarily male. Though Zelda only briefly.* This is the main plot device of the Korean drama series ''Series/SecretGarden'', in which it turns out that [[spoiler: the female lead's dead father]] engineered a body swap between her and her soulmate, as a part of an elaborate plan to [[spoiler: heal her from grief caused by his death, which was caused saving the soulmate's life]]. The three switch three times over the 20 episodes, each iteration powerfully shifting the complex dynamics between them and with those around them.* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''** In a minor example, Dax by way of TheNthDoctor. She's female through both incarnations in the main series, but Sisko (who knew her before the current incarnation) calls her "old man" (despite appearing to be a young woman). One of her male forms is seen in a flashback, and others are seen through a psychic-body-swap-thing, including one of her previous female forms in a male host.** In another episode, Quark (for reasons having to do with a Ferengi diplomat) has to have a temporary sex change. Not only does he pop out of Sickbay as a physiologically-complete Ferengi woman, his ''personality'' has [[YouFailBiologyForever suddenly altered]] to be completely feminine. Cue the parade of human female stereotype behaviors.** During an espionage mission against the Dominion, Odo (a shapeshifter) briefly assumes the form of the Female Changeling.* In the second episode of ''Series/TeenAngel'', Steve decides to ask his crush Jessica, a popular [[AllGuysWantCheerleaders cheerleader]], on a date. Marty is afraid he'll be rejected, so he impersonates Jessica on the phone and agrees to the date. Rather than admit his deceit, he decides to morph into Jessica's double and go on the date in her place. The episode ends on a rather sweet note, as the date with faux-Jessica gives Steve the confidence to ask out the ''real'' one (who, as it turns out, has a great deal in common with him).* An episode of ''Series/TomicaHeroRescueForce'' has the BigBad, inspired by the sex changing ability of clownfish (see the fish example under "Other"), create a virus to turn all men into women, thus robbing humanity of their ability to reproduce, and eventually causing our extinction. She's stopped, naturally, but not before she manages to transform the male heroes.* ''Series/TheTonightShow with Jay Leno'' played with the trope on occasion:** A fake ad for something called ''For Men Only'' (a parody of men's haircare products) showcases a liquid that turns men into women. There are several male to female morphs in it, including one of Jay himself using the product.** Another episode has Jay in drag (a supermodel with his voice).** On the episode where Pam Anderson is the guest, Jay asks several questions about implants and then asks her.."If you could be a man, who would it be?" Pam responds "I could be you!" Jay then exclaims "That's perfect. Why?" Pam's answer is "So I could sit there, torturing you, asking about your implants."* In the French TV series ''Series/ViceVersa'', due to a lab accident the main character Thomas turns into his female self Emmanuelle (then Julia, in season two) whenever he hits his elbow.* ''Series/WeirdScience''** At the end of the pilot episode, after Wyatt (the cautious one) tells Lisa (hot computer-created genie) that he's happy and she disappears, Gary (slacker) is ticked and states he'd only be happy if Wyatt was a killer babe. At that point, Wyatt is turned into a hot blonde.** Later in the series, Gary is accidentally zapped into a phone sex worker.** In the episode "Feminine Mistake," Wyatt and Gary want to understand women better, but aren't satisfied with Lisa's help. So, of course, Lisa makes them look like girls. "Wynona" and "Garyette" get hit on by everyone including Wyatt's brother Chett. Played for laughs as Wyatt and Gary see themselves as girls only in mirrors and the audience sees them as girls when they flirt with their minor friends (or have a hissy fit.) But when boys try to [[HoYay pick them up....]]* In ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'', Max undergoes one in "Three Maxes and a Little Lady", thanks to a mutant spell cast by Alex and Justin. He remains female for several episodes until the spell is undone.** Also to Justin in "Third Wheel" where he shape-shifts into Alex to trick Harper into helping him finish his float. The fact that he had no moral hesitation in willingly turning himself into his sister raises a lot of questions.* Season One of ''Series/TheXFiles'' gives us the aptly titled episode [[LampshadedTrope "Gender Bender"]] , which revolves around a community of humanoid aliens with the ability to change genders at will. Said aliens secrete unusually high levels of {{Pheromones}}, which enables them to easily find human sex partners -- but, unfortunately, often makes [[DeathBySex the act itself fatal.]] * ''Series/EmeraldCity'': Tip, Mombi's ward, takes "medicine" to suppress an apparent illness. [[spoiler:When he escapes Mombi with help from Jack and Dorothy, Tip transforms into a girl overnight. Turns out the magic was to keep his identity safe. Later, he transforms back, relieved after struggling with having a girl's body. He takes on female form again to gain control of the witches' sisterhood as Ozma]].* ''Series/{{NTSFSDSUV}}'': Parodied. Agent Trent Hauser used to be married to an attractive female agent whom he worked with on a mission. She later got a sex change that transformed her into an overweight guy. Cue UnresolvedSexualTension between the two. S/he wasn't even originally a woman, apparently [[RaceLift having once been a black man]].[[/folder]]

[[folder:Manhwa]]* The power rings in ''Manhwa/PhDPhantasyDegree'' allow whoever wears them to switch their gender, but also acts as a PowerLimiter.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Music]]* The video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTdhXxxWREo "Bye Bye Beautiful"]] flips almost at random between portraying Music/{{Nightwish}} and Nightwish-as-a-GirlGroup (starting as the latter), with then-lead singer Annette Olzon the only member staying the same in both versions.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Myths & Religion]]* There are several instances of gender bending in Myth/GreekMythology, all of which are OlderThanFeudalism.** The prophet Tiresias was (in one version of his story) transformed into a woman by the goddess Hera as punishment for killing a pair of mating snakes. After spending seven years as a woman, he encountered another pair of snakes at the same spot and (either by killing them or leaving them alone) was changed back into a man; in some versions of the story, he continued to change sexes every seven years for the rest of his life. As a result of Tiresias's unique experience, Zeus and Hera later called upon him to settle an argument over which gender has more pleasure in sex (as he alone had experienced it from both perspectives). Tiresias sided with Zeus, stating that women enjoy it more; Hera's response to ''that'' is why he became known as "the blind prophet".** And Tiresias' youngest daughter, [[Comicbook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen Bio/Bion/Vita/Vito/Roland/Orlando]], began to develop this ability at the age of ten.** The goddess Artemis turned the Cretan boy Sipriotes into a woman for staring at her naked body while she was bathing.** In his ''[[Literature/TheMetamorphoses Metamorphoses]]'' Ovid wrote of Iphis, a daughter of Telethusa and Ligdus, who Ligdus had said -- when Telethusa was pregnant -- he would kill if born a girl. The goddess Isis told Telethusa to bring Iphis up as a boy, and Iphis eventually fell in love with a woman -- Ianthe. So Isis turned Iphis into a man. They lived HappilyEverAfter.** Poseidon raped Caenis, but afterwards offered to grant her a wish. She wished to become a man so that she would never be raped again. He granted her wish, and as a bonus, made her invulnerable to weapons. The new man renamed himself Caeneus and became a fierce warrior. He was eventually killed by being crushed to death under a pile of tree trunks and rocks. In some versions, he became a woman again in the Underworld.* Myth/HinduMythology** In the ''Literature/{{Mahabharata}}'', Shikandin, the reincarnation of Amba, was born specifically in order to kill Bhishma. He was born as a girl but was brought up as a boy due to ProphecyTwist. He exchanged his female body with a Yaksha and was turned into a man.** The God Vishnu turned temporarily into a beautiful woman called Mohini in order to seduce the demons away from eating nectarine that would lead to immortality. He coyly teased them about it, transformed back to his original self and gave the pot to the gods.** The Hindu view on reincarnation allows for gender to be changed during the cycle. So a man who dies could be reincarnated as a woman, and vice versa.* Myth/NorseMythology is ''full'' of this trope:** The gods hired a contractor to build their heavenly city. They let him name his price after he did the work, he asked for the goddess of love's hand in marriage. He was a giant, with a giant horse, so they had to distract the horse and get him outa town. How'd they distract the horse? Why, by having the trickster god Loki, noted male, transform into a hot mare, of course! [[MisterSeahorse Loki actually got pregnant from this]] and bore the eight-legged horse, Sleipnir, who Odin nicked to be his warhorse. Loki didn't mind, presumably wanting to drown the memories in mead as quickly as possible and never see a reminder again. Another version of the myth has the Giant getting Odin's wife if the work is completed by a certain date, and Loki distracts the Giant's horse as above to delay the work past the due date so she doesn't have to pay up.** In the myth where Loki invades the gods' banqueting hall to insult them all, he and Odin both charge the other with having turned into a woman -- a real woman, who had borne a child and nursed it.* According to Herodotus' ''Histories'' some Scythian raiders once made the mistake of sacking a temple of Venus Castina (the aspect of Venus who looks after the souls of [[{{Transgender}} women locked in male bodies]].) The Goddess responded by turning the raiders into women.* Happens in a rare myth of Guanyin, the Chinese interpretation of Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, who is recognized as almost exclusively female due to a mixture with his/her own Tara and some fertility goddesses (although Avalokiteshvara truly appears only in 4 of his 32 incarnations as female). It is connected with a school of Shaolin, there, Guanyin changes into a man for the sake of the group and later is "allowed" to stay that way.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]* A sex change is part of Bio Monster DNA's backstory in Wrestling/{{FMW}}, as deciding being a woman wasn't for him, the process to turn him back into a man went wrong and instead made him a human spider hybrid.* {{Conversed|trope}} at the unsanctioned ''Wrestling/{{R|ingOfHonor}}oH A Night Of Hoopla'' where Bobby Fish told former ring crew member Cheeseburger he had a better chance of growing a vagina that beating reDRagon.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tabletop Games]]* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' examples:** The "Girdle of Femininity/Masculinity" is a magic item dating back to AD&D. It changes the wearer's sex. In later editions, it often brought some distaste due to being referred to as "cursed" with some trans fans questioning why, though once it's pointed out that it ''forcibly'' changes the wearer's gender, or outright ''removed'' it, the derision stopped.*** It is also far easier to return from the dead than to reverse this curse. The single most powerful spell in the game has only a 50% chance of reversing it.** The Changeling race from ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'' can change appearance at will, including gender (or become genderless/hermaphrodite). They do tend to have a basic sexual identity developed during childhood, but any changeling can still procreate as either gender.** Most shapechanging magic (such as ''Alter Self'') allows the caster to choose the gender of the assumed form, along with more typical alterations such as height and build.** Many "random" magic effects in ''D&D'' include involuntary sex change as one possible result. Wild Mages in particular tend to suffer from it.** The infamous TabletopGame/TombOfHorrors has this as a result of one of the many, many traps, with the added bonus of alignment reversal.** In the third-party supplement ''The Book of Erotic Fantasy'', there is a sex-change spell, oh-so aptly-named ''Reverse Gender'', with the memorable flavor text ''"I'm a girl! I'm a girl! I'm a... no, wait, let me check."'' It is often combined with ''Permanency'' to make [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the change permanent]]. However, it will be turned off in an AntiMagic field.** ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' has a special spell for this, that was repeatedly used in the ''Elminster Saga'' novels, though didn't make it into {{sourcebook}}s. Eilistraee [[http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5812&whichpage=67#159733 used to allow this as an option for her rare male priests]] (being a female used to be the only way to to truly feel her divine dance, which is needed to become a cleric). However, [[http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=19841&whichpage=21#476469 males can freely become priests of Eilistraee after her return, post-Sundering/5e]]. Mystra at least sometimes does this too, though her high-ranked servants are likely to shapeshift into lots of forms either way while going about their usual business.** ''TabletopGame/{{Greyhawk}}'' got ''Zagig's Gender Shift'' spell introduced in ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' #270. 3rd level, but unlike ''Alter Self'' it remains until dispelled or negated.** Several creatures (exactly which depends on the edition) have the ability to change into other forms. Some of these, such as that of several dragon types, are generic enough in what those alternate forms can be that it is possible to shift gender with them -- of course, it usually comes with the requirement to change into a different kind of creature as well.* In the {{Animesque}} TabletopGame ''TabletopGame/TeenagersFromOuterSpace'', the Boy/Girl Gun is a standard item, and one alien power replicates the effect on the user. It's probably best to not speculate about the non-standard items.* ''TabletopGame/{{Mekton}} Zeta'' cites this as a sample use of the "Special Effect Weapon" Stupid Mekton Trick.* In ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'', "Hermaphromorph" is a cheap (5 point) Advantage that allows a character to change sex at will.* Similarly, ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' has the "Sex switch" augmentation that allows one to change sex at will, but the transformation takes a week. For some reason it only takes a day in a [[AutoDoc healing vat]] to permanently switch sexes.* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}''** The Lunar Exalted have access to a [[FunctionalMagic charm]] which allows them to change sex at will. Their God/Patron Luna, who's typically identified as female, enjoys the same power, and sometimes appears as a man or a [[MisterSeahorse pregnant boy]].** Alchemical Exalted have a charm that allows them to shift their physical appearance, allowing them to be males, females, and even hermaphrodites or sexless. Since they are sterile in any case, the changes are purely cosmetic, though.** With Sidereal Martial Arts, it's possible to make someone switch genders by ''punching'' them.** If a [[OurTitansAreDifferent Primordial's]] central soul is killed, the Primordial's personality and form undergo drastic reconfiguration, akin to ''Series/DoctorWho''-style regeneration. In at least one case, this included a change in gender; the male Primordial known as He Who Bleeds the Unknown Word became the female Elloge, the Sphere of Speech.** Finally, there's an artefact known as [[PowerCrystal the Stone of Gender Transformation]], that allows the user to change their gender.* ''TabletopGame/{{Scion}}'' has an Epic Appearance perk mentioned in the God rulebook, that allows the Scion to change everything about his/her body, including gender, and becoming a hermaphrodite. They're even fully fertile.* ''TabletopGame/UnknownArmies'' provides players with at least three permanent ways to magically change their character's sex, a few more temporary methods, and several canonical one-off accidents. In addition, since the game is set in the PresentDay, [[{{Transgender}} gender-reassignment surgery]] is also available - and explicitly ''necessary'' for correcting some magical accidents.* In ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', the Chaos God [[EvilisSexy Slaanesh]] typically uses the pronoun 'He'. However, he in fact is neither male nor female yet both at the same time (the Eldar who created hir use "She Who Thirsts"). He assumes whatever form the person viewing him would find most attractive, which means that he can either be a fully functioning male, female, hermaphrodite or whatever else a person finds attractive at any given time. His traditional form is a weird sort of hermaphrodite, being split down the middle vertically as a woman on the right side of the body and a man on the left. The same goes for his/her breeds of daemon, including the more animalistic ones, and the cultists s/he shows favor to.* ''TabletopGame/{{Cthulhutech}}'' has a First Order (low level) spell of the Transmogrification style called "Beckon the Unexpressed". Its other names are Aphrodite's Touch and Gender Bender, which sums it up fairly well. By magically "tweaking" the target on a chromosomal level, the target switches gender in a painless fashion over a period of three days. The ritual is legal (though it requires a permit), and implicitly a person "switched" in this manner is fully functional in their new role -- the spell has replaced [[{{Transgender}} surgery]] for gender reassignment. Because the ritual only requires an effigy of the target and not the target's actual presence, it's noted that immature occultists like to use it for pranks. Especially in college. As well as merely switching men to women and vice versa (the change is permanent, but easily undone with a second spell), casters with sufficient occult skill and knowledge of physical medicine can use this spell to create different varieties of fully functional gender ambiguities (people with the body of one sex and the reproductive organs of the other, or a "true" hermaphrodite with the body of one sex and the organs of both).* ''TabletopGame/TwilightSparklesSecretShipficFolder'' has four cards that change a pony's gender (although one is titled Rule63 and another has the name DudeLooksLikeALady so this could be half subverted).* ''TabletopGame/{{Forsooth}}'' has a theme table that lists this as a possible theme. It's no wonder considering the game's [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare inspiration]].* ''Tabeltop/{{Shadowrun}}'': Generally averted; while the setting offers fully functional sex change procedures, this is usually for genuine {{transgender}} people rather than this trope. However, notable shadowrunner and ConspiracyTheorist Plan 9 has had so many sex change operations, switching back and forth from male to female, that they claim they can't remember what they started out as anymore, qualifying for this trope as it isn't because Plan 9 is transgender, but rather because they're addicted to surgery and augmentation.* In the [[TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness Classic]] and TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness:** ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'':*** The [[PrestigeClass Legacy]] known as the [[MeaningfulName Daksha]] become {{Hermaphrodite}}s after a certain degree of initiation, but also have the ability to shift between a male and female form as they see fit (although they will generally consider the hermaphrodite form their true one). They do this because they believe it is the mark of their [[EvilutionaryBiologist superiority]].*** Mages talented in the Life Arcanum can change sex (along with [[{{Humanshifting}} any other physical traits]]) and Masters of Life can do this for others. However, living bodies naturally resist magical influence, so the spell needs to be periodically renewed.** As of second edition, the Werewolves of ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheForsaken'' can switch sex at will using an ability nearly identical to that of the Lunar Exalted described above, with more or less the same justification.** The Galloi of ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'' are a Nosferatu bloodline who exchange their [[LooksLikeOrlok freakish ugliness]] for [[OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous eerie, androgynous beauty]] and whose most powerful members can bestow a Gender Bender through BloodMagic. If the recipient is sufficiently dedicated, the change becomes permanent.** Some Flesh Shintai powers in ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'''s ''TabletopGame/KindredOfTheEast'' allow the user to change gender; one, Gender Change, from the Thrashing Dragon Dharma book, does it by repurposing various parts of your anatomy so it resembles the other gender's - e.g., for a male-to-female transformation, the reproductive tract comes from large intestine and muscles.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Video Games]]* Microprose's ''Videogame/RexNebularAndTheCosmicGenderBender'' does indeed apply this trope to [[spoiler:its title hero, who temporarily becomes its heroine]]. The titular device is used by the planet's all-female population for reproduction in lieu of actual men. When Rex first meets a local woman who doesn't want to kill him on the spot, she assumes he's actually a woman who has used the device. Rex has to convince her that he's a real man by doing the stereotypical "manly" things, like knowing what a torque wrench is and having no idea how to set a table.* ''VideoGame/BaldursGate''** Edwin is transformed into a woman by a Netheril practical joke in ''Shadows of Amn'' (he believed it would transform him into a lich), and is unable to turn back. The game even gives him a second soundset for his female form (though it does nothing to his portrait). He is eventually turned back after many trials, tribulations and being snarked at by most of the other party members. However, [[spoiler:by keeping Edwin in your party through ''Throne of Bhaal'', his WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue reveals that he later tried to make his name by challenging Elminster to a magic duel, who had apparently heard of his previous mishap and made sure to apply the effect permanently this time...]].*** This leads into a brief MythologyGag in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', where an angry red-robed woman named Edwina appears briefly.** Being based on ''D&D'', the Wild Mage class has it as one of the random effects.** There's also a girdle from the first game that has no effect but to instantly and permanently change the gender of whomever puts it on.* ''VideoGame/BlazBlueChronophantasma Extend'' has two side-stories starring Mai Natsume, the protagonist of the ''Manga/BlazblueRemixHeart'' manga, who has been magically transformed into a girl. Mai also appears in the story of and is a playable character in ''VideoGame/BlazBlueCentralFiction''.* In the Japanese version of ''[[VideoGame/{{Bonk}} Bonks Revenge]]'', your secondary form is not a scarred Bonk like in the overseas version, but rather ''a female Bonk''! [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plGx7kZCpMA This occurs at around 1:30 of this video]] if you don't believe me.* After the introduction of the Super Science power pack in ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'', it was possible to use different body types (and, therefore, change your gender when you change your costume) across different costume slots.* ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}} II'', like most games in the series, has a "unit upgrade" mechanic - the "Leonardo's Workshop" wonder, in this case. When built, this wonder will turn all your Diplomat units into the more advanced Spy. The Diplomat is depicted as a stereotypical old-fashioned diplomat, a little man wearing tails, a top hat, and grey striped trousers. The Spy, however, is a busty female wearing a LittleBlackDress. So your diplomatic corps not only gets better skills, but free sex changes!* ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}''** Demitri Maximoff (or Maximov; it changes) has a move called [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOPNAB4C_uQ Midnight Bliss]], in which he turns an opponent into a woman before [[LifeEnergy sucking the life]] out of her. (What happens when he uses it on female opponents varies wildly between victims.)** In regards to this, in ''VideoGame/SNKVsCapcomSVCChaos'', Goenitz is one of the playable characters. His Midnight Bliss form (called [[FanNickname Goeniko]]) has become very popular as a result, ironically turning every gamer's worst nightmare into every hentai artist's dream.*** It gets weird when Hugo is Blissed. Just... [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6F5WWgGkKc#t=1m40s look at him]] when Demitri is draining his lifeforce... [[spoiler: he [[{{Squick}} becomes]] [[VideoGame/FinalFight Poison]]!!!]]*** It just gets weirder in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSvzOhsFJLg&NR=1 this fanvid]] made in ''{{VideoGame/MUGEN}}''. For example, Miyako turns into [[Music/{{Vocaloid}} Hatsune Miku]] when Blissed.* ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'' allows you to transmigrate any non-story character into another class, with the option of changing gender in the process. If that's not enough, you can choose to turn him into a penguin instead.** A stranger example comes from the ''LightNovel/DisgaeaNovels''. [[spoiler:Lamington states that angels have no set gender to begin with, instead taking in traits from the environment and their own emotions having an effect. Apparently their choices in weaponry also affect the outcome as well, which gets weird when you figure that the angels in-game are all female.]]** Happens to Laharl in ''VideoGame/DisgaeaDimension2'' but only for one Episode. There is an option to pass a bill to turn him back into a girl again. ''Disgaea 5'' allows you to have this version of Laharl as a unit via DLC (or the free-of-surcharge Special Shop in ''[[UpdatedRerelease Disgaea 5 Complete]]'').** In ''VideoGame/Disgaea5'' there is an evility called "Gender Bender" that you can equip to any character. It doesn't change their character model, alter cutscenes, or change voices, however certain evilities affect specific genders, and this can be used to gain or avoid certain effects. For example, equip Killia with this evility and he gains the 5% all-map ally stat boost from Axel that specifically affects female units, and becomes immune to the Succubus's male-focused debuff. This effect is as permanent as you want it and can be freely switched on and off. And considering the ''Disgaea 3'' DLC has Female Revya...* ''VideoGame/DivinityIITheDragonKnightSaga'' features the illusionists; mages who use their talents to reshape one's physical appearance, which includes gender, at no cost. Players are given the option to take advantage of their services in the first area of the game, Farglow, through a rather eccentric individual named Tiresias. Later, once you've claimed your battle tower, you gain access to the services of another illusionist by the name of Hermaphroditus, and then again in the Flames of Vengeance expansion through a woman named Chanelle in the city of Aleroth.** The names of the two illusionists of the base game are actually both references to Myth/GreekMythology. Hermaphroditus refers to a minor god of the same name, who was the god of hermaphrodites and effeminate men, while Tiresias is a reference to the myth of a prophet by the same name.*** The myth of Tiresias is even further referenced when Tiresias mentions he's taken advantage of the spells, himself. If you decide to read his mind, his thoughts read "Which was more fun: man or woman. I can never decide."** One particular quest in the ''VideoGame/DivinityIIFlamesOfVengeance'' expansion, "All the After World's a Stage" presents a scenario where male player characters are required to switch gender, at least temporarily. The quest requires the player to visit a haunted theater, abandoned after an incident where one of the actors accidentally acted out a demon's summoning ritual. Inside the frustrated ghosts of the actresses and director are found rehearsing for the scene. After speaking with the ghost of the director, Alfred, you are asked to retrieve a copy of the script. Afterward, you may ask to help by filling the role of Camilla. If your character is female, you can get right to it. However, if you are male, Alfred tells you he needs a female actor, and to "Come back once you look a little more... feminine." A simple trip to an illusionist sorts this issue out.* ''Videogame/DragonBallOnline'' lets you create a female Majin but if you want to use the pure Majin power up it will turn you into a clone of Kid Buu (a male) for its duration.* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls''** The [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Princes]], being technically OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous divine spirits, this applies to all of them, and several of them are known to appear as differing genders at different times. Boethiah is the most prominent example, shifting between male and female forms (and voices) from one appearance to the next (including all of the PronounTrouble that brings). Others will only present themselves as a single gender (Azura and Nocturnal as female, Mehrunes Dagon, Molag Bal, and Sheogorath as male), and Hermaeus Mora forgoes [[EldritchAbomination even trying to resemble anything with a gender]] (although generally speaks with a male voice).** According to some (potentially [[UnreliableExpositor unreliable]]) in-universe sources, [[LizardFolk Argonians]] are said to be sequential hermaphrodites, meaning they can switch genders. The time spent as either male or female is called a "life-phase". ** PhysicalGod Vivec claims to be a hermaphrodite. Once of his stories claims that he produced offspring with [[GodOfEvil Molag Bal]] (the tale of this includes a part where [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar they compare the size of their "spears" and engage in "piercing of the second aperture"]]). The Dissident Priests in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'' explain that Vivec just [[UnreliableNarrator made most of that stuff up]] in order to appear more divine than "some guy who stole his Godhood while betraying his friend". There are even some holes in his story, such as the aforementioned "having kids with Molag Bal" as Daedra ''can't create life''. However, you can be sent on a quest by Molag Bal himself to banish a ''daughter'' of his back to his realm... stories dealing with gods in the ''Elder Scrolls'' universe can get very [[MindScrew Mind Screwy]]...* Actually a play mechanic in Creator/{{Cave}}'s BulletHell series ''VideoGame/{{Espgaluda}}'' -- entering "awakening" mode causes your character's gender to flip, and for all the bullets to move in slow motion. It also makes it possible to cancel opposition bullets by killing the shooter to rack up huge scores. However, if the meter showing how long you can remain gender flipped runs out, you're immediately shunted back to your original gender, with bullets moving at double speed.* ''VideoGame/FableII''** The [[ReligionOfEvil Temple of Shadows]] has the "Wheel of Misfortune", which kills human sacrifices through random means. Among its possibilities are electrocution, impalement, beheading and "Gender Change."** The player has a chance to use a sex changing potion after buying Castle Fairfax. This potion is one-time use and irreversible (the game saves immediately after you use it), unless you play Co-Op online and use someone else's potion. The change is generally acknowledged by the [=NPCs=], but your spouse couldn't care less (unless the situation becomes [[IncompatibleOrientation incompatible]] and your child readily starts calling you 'mum' or 'dad').* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'', as you leave Vault 101 after the tutorial, you have the option of reassigning your character's gender. In the PC version, you can also do this with console commands.* In ''VideoGame/{{Geist}}'', John Raimi, the ghost of a man, has to possess several women to progress through the game. This actually becomes important gameplay-wise when you possess towel-clothed Anna, who will not walk past a male-guard without proper clothes.* ''Website/GaiaOnline'' lets you change your avatar's gender three times for free, then begins charging on the fourth. A "Gender Bender" potion was also made available.* ''VisualNovel/GenderBenderDNATwisterExtreme'' is a series of visual novels about this happening to numerous different characters.* In ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'' you can encounter the Furnace of the Mad Science God Lord Lao. There are various recipes of combinations of working parts and fuel that can upgrade your character, and experimenting with other mixtures will usually just summon demons or light you on fire. However, there is one unmentioned combination that will briefly swap your character into the opposite gender (Complete with matching clothes!). This is temporary however and you shift back five seconds later.* Players in ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' can change gender at Ye Olde Gender-Reassignment Clinic in the Sleazy Back Alley, or upon ascension. Either way, gender serves essentially no purpose in the game except for a few words and the hair length of avatars.* Diermont, the protagonist of LureOfTheTemptress, takes a position which transforms his appearance into that of [[spoiler:Selena, the villain and temptress named in the title]].* ''VideoGame/MindYourManors'' has a strong gender bending theme, with [[spoiler: three out of four]] endings where the protagonist is stuck as a woman. The severity of the change depends on the ending. To be expected, considering it was done by the creator of the Webcomic/{{Sins}} webcomic.* ''[[VideoGame/MrDo Neo Mr. Do]]'' has a powerup that turns the title character into a woman, as if Mr. Do wasn't creepy enough....* ''Everyone'' in ''VideoGame/NexusClash'' is one of these unless they specifically opt out of it. DeathIsCheap and player characters who die respawn in a totally random body, which has an equal chance of being either gender if the player hasn't picked a preference. It's a text based game with PurelyAestheticGender, so the implications of regularly waking up as a different gender aren't explored as often as one might expect.* ''VideoGame/NightsIntoDreams'' has a rather interesting example. [=NiGHTS=], the character of the games gender depends on what gender the person viewing [=NiGHTS=] sees [=NiGHTS=] as. Since [=NiGHTS=] combines with people to escape the Ideya Palace, you've got to wonder what happens when someone sees him as the opposite gender...* The Amulet of Change from ''VideoGame/NetHack'' switches the player, then disintegrates, leaving him/her stuck. Since this has [[PurelyAestheticGender next to no consequences on gameplay]] ([[HornyDevils foocubi]] will seduce the opposite sex and attack the same, only females can lay eggs, and strange monsters' hatched eggs sometimes ignore male characters), the amulet is considered VendorTrash except for stunts like making male Valkyries. The possibility that it's what an unidentified amulet is isn't considered a good reason not to try it on.** In the ''[=NetHack=]'' fork ''[[VideoGame/{{SlashEmExtended}} Slash'EM Extended]]'', if the player creates a male Topmodel or female Transvestite as their player character, they instantly turn into the other gender. This doesn't stop them from using the Amulet of Change to revert to their starting gender though.* Although not necessarily a true case of Gender Bending, the 1996 game ''VideoGame/{{Pandemonium}}'' by Crystal Dynamics has a cheat labeled; BODYSWAP, which, when inputted shows the statement "Gender Bender!" The cheat itself, however, only enables in-level character swapping between Nikki and Fargus.* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'', [[spoiler:Shadow Naoto]] tries to turn its creator into an adult male through body alteration. Luckily, you can stop it before that happens because all shadows you haven't personally stopped have murdered their originals, the implication being that the operation would have GoneHorriblyWrong.* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''** Specific to ''[[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver Pokémon Crystal]]'', if the player chooses the female avatar, they appear as the male avatar if they want to trade with any other game, as the sprite data for the female avatar doesn't exist in any other compatible version. However, in this game the player's gender choice was [[PurelyAestheticGender purely aesthetic]], so nothing is made of it.*** Though that's inverted in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonStadium Pokémon Stadium 2]]''; using the Crystal console to select your Pokémon in any arena results in your avatar being displayed as female. It's still purely aesthetic, but still.** Azurill has a 1 male to 3 female gender ratio, while its evolution Marill has an even gender ratio, meaning 1/3 of female Azurill become male upon evolution. [[LetsPlay/{{Chuggaaconroy}} In other words, it grows a dick.]] (This is most likely unintended.) This "bug" was fixed as of ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'', as said Azurill now retain their genders when they evolve.** An intentional example occurs in ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonGatesToInfinity''. Meloetta refers to her Aria forme as "Princess" and his Pirouette forme as "Prince". Given that they also refer to each other as different people, they may just be a CloudCuckooLander.** An interesting case is Ditto. Once breeding was introduced, Ditto gained the unique ability to breed with ''any'' Pokémon capable of breeding, regardless of the mate's gender. This means Ditto [[VoluntaryShapeshifting transforms]] into a male or female version of the mate's species as needed.* In ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice'', Maya Fey has the power to recall spirits from the afterlife and into her body. When she does so, her body physically becomes that of the person being channeled ([[MorphicResonance except for her hair]]). And in this game, she channels the spirits of some men (namely [[spoiler:Tah'rust Inmee, a murder victim who had crucial testimony]] and [[spoiler:Dhurke Sadhmadhi, Apollo's adoptive father]]). However, as the soul of the person completely takes over the channeller's body, the potential for {{fanservice}} is severely reduced.* [[ShapeshifterWeapon Alex Mercer]] from ''Videogame/{{Prototype}}'' is capable of doing this when consuming a female character and turning into her. Then again, [[spoiler:Is it really gender bending if you have no gender to begin with?]].* ''VideoGame/RuneScape''** The Makeover Mage in Falador will change your gender for a fee of 3,000 coins.** There is a members quest where one of the tasks ''requires'' you to do this if you are male, as, in the words of the enemy in question, "[[NoManOfWomanBorn No man]] [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings can kill me!]]"* Zohar, TheRival in ''VideoGame/SilhouetteMirage'', has two forms with opposite attributes and gender. As Zohar Metatron, he's a Silhouette-attribute who wields a sword; as Zohar Sandalphon, she's a Mirage-attribute with a gun.* Another Creator/NipponIchi example comes from ''VideoGame/SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters''. [[spoiler:The player character, Revya, was explicitly born as Median's firstborn son all of about 200-some years back. This trope comes into play if you choose to play as a female.]]* Should Mario grab a Mystery Mushroom in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioMaker'', he'll turn into the character that was assigned to said mushroom. This includes the likes of Princess Peach and the Wii Fit Trainer.* In the {{VideoGame/MUGEN}}-based game ''VideoGame/TheBlackHeart'', [[DeathSeeker Animus]] constantly switches between male and female appearance. Many attacks are "gender-specific", but he automatically changes gender as appropriate when they are performed, so the changes are mostly cosmetic.* Toward the end of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', Sheik, in a [[ItWasHisSled shocking twist everyone knows]], turns into the princess herself. There's [[FlipFlopOfGod contradictory information]] on whether the change was just [[WholesomeCrossdresser clothes and hair]] ([[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and color contacts]]), but it certainly looks magical.* Drag Queen's ending in ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal 4''.* Apparently, this is a standard part of military training for the Marines faction in ''VideoGame/{{WarWind}}''. Even if there are no female recruits available for hire in the game, they become women when trained as Grunts at the Barracks.* ''VideoGame/{{World of Warcraft}}''** Chronormu, a bronze dragon who 1) had a name consistent with the naming standards of male bronze dragons, and 2) prefers to [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith take the humanoid form]] of a ''female'' gnome named Chromie. This appears to have been an error, though, as her rare appearances in dragon form have since been changed to either just say Chromie, or Chronormi (the female suffix for bronze dragons).*** Turns out that Chromie has always been female, and it's just a GenderBlenderName. Chromie herself explains this. "Chronormu is not a male name, you just don't understand dragon culture!"** Player characters gained access to [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney character appearance resets for $25]] in 2008. This includes the ability to change your character's gender. This was used as an explicit selling point for the resets.** In "Wrath of the Lich King", the player is led through quests to a village entirely inhabited by Hyldnir, female Giants. For purposes of disguise it the player must transform into a Hyldnir, regardless of original gender.** Using an Illusion Potion near a character of the opposite sex.** Certain items that transform you into traditionally male creatures do (or did) cause you to be considered male as far as gender specific titles are concerned, such as the Iron Boot Flask which turns you into a male Iron Dwarf. Strangely, while the Pygmy gnome transformation of Pygmy Oil turned the player into a female Pygmy gnome, it would also result in female characters' titles changing to the ''male'' equivalent.* In the VisualNovel ''I My Mist'', the hero Ikumi is accidentally turned into a girl by the titular Ai Mai Mist when he checks up on his friend's scientist father.* In ''VideoGame/ZorkZero'', in the Giant Chessboard area, if you send a pawn to the end of the board, he (they're all male) transforms into a Queen.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Web Animation]]* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': In the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "different town", Strong Bad [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail99.html explains]] what he would do if he could make Free Country USA different in any way he wanted. These changes range from the plausible (like the King of Town being stuck in a box of peas, Coach Z getting a new jacket, and Homestar calling it quits) to the weird (such as Pom Pom looking like an ABA basketball and Strong Sad having horns and a tail). The weirdest of all? He plans to turn Homsar into a "modestly hot" girl. After realizing that this is ''[[StupidSexyFlanders Homsar]]'' he's talking about, Strong Bad starts to wonder if his imagination is broken.* In ''WebAnimation/DadEnlightenment'', Hank changes into Heather, a pale female version of himself, at one point.* [[http://www.sapphirefoxx.com Sapphire Foxx]] is devoted to exploring as many aspects of gender bending as possible. The main myth arc involves the idea that gender identity disorder is an inherited curse, but side stories may involve things like a businessman being mistaken for a woman when meeting a client, transforming a crossdressed Halloween cosplay couple as a prank, or pneumatic machines that can remold a person's body.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Web Comics]]* In ''Webcomic/NineteenSeventySevenTheComic'', Bud annoys the Mystic Frog, which curses him by giving him the ability to randomly transform into a female version of himself, randomly and at the most inappropriate times. Bud later realises the trigger is anger. Do not press his BerserkButton. Or do it anyway, just for laughs. * ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' is notable for the sheer number of gender-bending gags and storylines. A TransformationRay in the ChivalrousPervert's hands, a character able to transform others without such a device, a HalfHumanHybrid {{shapeshifter}} who can change forms, including both male and female at will, though seldom has an actual reason to do specifically this, and finally Elliot ends up with a suspiciously-specific shapeshifting ability but tries not to use it. [[FirstLawOfGenderBending So, of course]], the phlebotinum behind Elliot's hijinks builds up, and either he uses it several times a day to keep it controllable or it activates spontaneously anyway, maybe at the worst/best possible moment, because magic basically has a mind of its own. [[AuthorAppeal The author is on record]] about how much fun it is to torment Elliot. All of the major characters have their gender swapped at least once. [[spoiler:As a ''birthday party'' theme.]] ''EGS'' also gives us ''this'' wonderful line when Sarah and Susan are arguing over whether it's healthy or not when Elliot "[[AllMenArePerverts fails at perversion]]":-->'''Sarah:''' Don't you remember [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2005-10-30 what it's like to be a teenage guy]]?\\'''Susan:''' I try not to.* Similarly, ''Webcomic/TheWotch'' is pretty much based around the trope; whole groups of male students at Tandy Gardens HS (note the initials) have been permanently transformed into females (four of whom would later be featured in a SpinOff series, ''Webcomic/{{Cheer}}''), and some of the other male characters seem to have become addicted to being temporarily in female form. (The authors of both comics readily admit to being [[AuthorAppeal a little too interested]] in ShapeShifting. Their readership is in the tens of thousands. We blame 1980s cartoons.) In one particularly strange example, the Wotch herself has an older brother who likes to relax by taking on the form and personality of a four-year-old girl.* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':** Roy has to don the mystical "Belt of Femininity/Masculinity" to escape a pair of would-be assassins. This is an actual magical item in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', though this one reacts to Remove Curse better. Breaking [[AttractiveBentGender the trend]] slightly, Roy is NOT a beautiful woman, and is still bald.** Also a common theme is the fics written in the CrackPairing thread on the forum. And a theme week for avatars every year.* The same object shows up in [[http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp04302002.shtml a strip of]] ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'', as a way of shutting up an obnoxious player.* The basic premise of ''Webcomic/{{Misfile}}'' has Ash, the hero, getting accidentally "misfiled" in heaven by a stoner clerk. This not only changes him from a teenage boy to a teenage girl overnight, it changes the entire world to fit. Some aspects are convenient (no need to explain anything or [[http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=47 shop for new underwear]]), some are comically disturbing ([[http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=24 Bikini shots and prom pictures in the photo album]],[[http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=44 yaoi magazines under the bed]]), and some are not-so-comically disturbing ([[http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=278 "girl-Ash" had reconnected with her estranged mother via a letter that "boy-Ash" had been too ashamed to send]] [[http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=391 and had already lost "her" virginity to his oldest and best friend.]])* ''Webcomic/UmlautHouse'' has a gender-bending TransformationRay, originally built by MadScientist Dr Hundecoph to help his {{transgender}} friend Dr. Pegasus become female, but later accidentally set off by Volair, who [[ManIFeelLikeAWoman takes it in stride]] before changing back a few days later. For the second series, author Allen Ecker [[WordOfGod explains elsewhere]] that when Hundecoph reformed, he [[ReedRichardsIsUseless took the unusual step]] of releasing the design to the public (he'd already [[CutLexLuthorACheck made a fortune]] selling his other inventions, but he wanted to make sure that this particular one was open-source).* A storyline near the end of ''[[Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}} It's Walky]]'' switches the genders of Walky, Joyce, Head Alien, Monkey Master, and the aliens' ''computer'' due to UnpredictableResults. Entropy nearly kept them that way, but [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien The Wanderer]] intervened. The trope is played with somewhat as well. Joyce points out to Walky that despite having changed genders, they're still straight, leading to humorous moments between them and their team mates. It's later revealed that male-Joyce's "equipment" was bigger than Walky's regular package. Walky is not happy to know this, to say the least.* In ''Webcomic/GenderSwapped'', the main characters are hit by a ray gun that changes their sex and rewrites their lives while they sleep. The machine, known only as the 'GSM' has been built by scientists for a yet to be announced reason. Two of the three main characters were hit by a split beam setting the plot in motion, the third character [[spoiler: Elise, whose name is now Elyps]], due to an odd set of circumstances, has to live as a boy without the luxury of the people closest to her thinking she was always that way. This comic has followed both the [[FirstLawOfGenderBending First]] and [[SecondLawOfGenderBending Second]] Laws of Gender Bending.* Done briefly in ''Webcomic/TheLastDaysOfFoxhound'', in which Decoy Octopus (who, through drinking their blood, can take on another person's appearance) disguises himself as Sniper Wolf. It's a very complete transformation.* In ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'', MadScientist Helen Narbon invents an instant gender-change formula. She gleefully uses it in several storylines, not least to make her sex life more interesting. [[spoiler:When Dave and Helen briefly separate near the end of the comic, his reaction is "Good lord, I'll never have lesbian sex again!"]]* The ''Webcomic/{{Insecticomics}}'' has several instances of characters spontaneously changing their gender, although being that they are mostly androgynous Transformers gender isn't much of an issue for them.** The most notable was the time that [[http://www.insecticons.com/insecticomics/equalopportunity.html Lazorbeak was voted female]] in an effort to make the comic less male-dominated.** In a later strip, the resident [[MoralGuardians Moral Guardian]] Lady Jaye protested that the male Thrust was pursuing a relationship with Dreadmoon (also male), whereupon Thrust promptly [[http://www.insecticons.com/insecticomics/v5/421.html declared himself female]] and went off to hit on Dreadmoon again. Since the characters and the author both refer to Thrust as "she" from this point on, apparently Thrust never bothered to change back.* ''Webcomic/{{DDG}}'' explains why, when you are a [[OurSoulsAreDifferent disembodied soul]] you shouldn't [[http://www.sincomics.com/phpAlbum/main.php?cmd=imageview&var1=DDG%2FDDG04.jpg&var2=2 fool around with magic cloaks]]. Something then-recently deceased Zip wishes s/he had known to start with.* The misogynistic Stunt from ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'' gets [[http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2008-08-27 briefly turned into a woman]] after [[IdiotBall defiantly taking a bite of an onion]] [[SchmuckBait labeled "pleez no eat" in a land of chaos magic]].* ''Webcomic/{{Exiern}}'' is about a mighty barbarian who went to save the DamselInDistress princess from the evil wizard. Accidentally nullifying his own ability to cast dark magic, the wizard resorts to pouring all the power he can into a light magic spell, transforming the barbarian into a beautiful woman.** The WhatIf donation comic ''Exiern: Dark Reflections'' has an AlternateUniverse take on this. In this, the aformationed DamselInDistress ends up possessed by the evil wizard, or the evil god the wizard was summoning, or something. The result is a Princess with EvilOverlord ambitions, a '''[[http://www.projectwonderful.com/img/uploads/pics/8086-1216722960.jpg very]]''' {{Stripperific}} outfit, and a mildly annoyed evil ''male'' spirit having to deal with the Princess's libido taking over every few minutes. Also, the wizard manages to use MindControl on the barbarian, now his enforcer [[http://darkreflections.exiern.com/index.php?strip_id=1 in another]] {{Stripperiffic}} [[http://darkreflections.exiern.com/index.php?strip_id=1 "outfit".]]* One of the many cameos in the FanWebComic ''Magical Girl Franchise/LyricalNanoha R'r'' by [[http://www.entropymax.com/ Entropy Max]] are the space aliens from ''Manga/KashimashiGirlMeetsGirl'', making this trope inevitable for a [[{{Bishounen}} feminine-looking male]] down on his luck in regards to the [[LesYay (ambiguously lesbian)]] girl he likes. Meet [[http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/672/nanorr11translationyr7.png Yuuno]] [[http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/2118/nanorr15translatedwi4.png Scrya]] (second image {{NSFW}}).* A major plot-point of ''Webcomic/TheDragonDoctors'', affecting the aforementioned doctors, every (former) male in the first town the Doctors visit, and several minor characters.* ''Webcomic/MSFHigh'': See especially Rainer. Though it frequently happens to others as well.* Various ''Slipshine'' comics, but most prominently ''Webcomic/TheKeyToHerHeart''.* ''She !s me (Oh no! I'm a girl!)'' [[http://www.comicgate.de/webcomics/she-s-me-oh-no-im-a-girl.html]] The story of a guy who one day wakes up as a gal. Don't think of this as a funny bodyswitch comedy, but as a serious evaluation about the question "What would you really do if...?" However as the story progresses it becomes less clear if a TG had actually taking place, as the protagonist/narrator's sanity is put into question, moving this comic more into the ''Unreliable Narrator'' section.** Actually, it seems pretty clear SOMETHING took place, given the sheer number of discrepancies that would make no sense otherwise. The main character isn't really insane so much as suffering from extreme paranoia. She sets out on to convince her friends she is who she says she is, only to come to the conclusion that they called the cops on her when they ask her to convince them, because they didn't outright reject her story to begin with. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, she's right, which doesn't exactly make things any better.]]* ''Webcomic/NinmuNanmu'': Anarchy and Rad'' feature this trope.* ''Webcomic/JetDream'' (the RemixComic), along with its {{Spinoff}} series ''It's Cookie!'' and ''My Jet Dream Romance'', are built around this trope. These [[AffectionateParody Affectionate Parodies]] of Silver Age comic books take as their premise the notion that the male members of the "Thunderbird Squadron" (ComicBook/{{Blackhawk}} {{Expy}}) have all been turned ([[FirstLawofGenderBending permanently and irrevocably, natch]]) into girls via AppliedPhlebotinum. As [[FunWithAcronyms Joint Elite Team, Division of Raiding-Expert Aeronautical Maidens]], they continue the good fight as ''T-Girls'' instead of ''T-Birds''. In addition, the most talented teenage boy recruits in [[FunWithAcronyms Junior Echelon, Teen T-Girls, Elle-Boys, and Esprit-Girls (Natural!) (J.E.T. T.E.E.N.)]] may themselves be voluntarily turned into girls after a period of training in Advanced [[WholesomeCrossdresser Crossdressing]] and [[SheFu T-Girl combat]] specialties.* Creator/JayNaylor's ''The Rise and Fall of Little Red Riding Hood'': Pablo.* ''Webcomic/KeychainOfCreation'': Naturally, Marena is able to do [[http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0114.html this]].* ''Webcomic/AxeCop'' has ''two'' prominent examples of this trope, both revealed in "Ask Axe Cop" installments:** In a WhatIf scenario, Axe Cop revealed that he'd only want to have kids "in a jillion years when I am done with my job" (i.e., the last bad guy in the world has been killed.) Axe Cop would then use unicorn magic to turn his best friend Sockarang into a girl, and they'd have a family together.** In another ([[{{Canon}} canonical]]!) example, Axe Cop teamed up with Abraham Lincoln, who turned into ''Abraham Lincoln: Explosion God'' and "put a bomb inside every bad guy." With all the bad guys in the world destroyed, Axe Cop used his magic unicorn horn and wished for Abraham Lincoln to be a girl. They got married, and lived HappilyEverAfter... until Axe Cop got bored. Presumably, the bad guys were resurrected and Axe Cop went back to doing his job, but the final fate of Girl Abraham Lincoln is, as yet, unrevealed.* This is the main power of the [[ArtifactOfDoom Tiresias Orb]] (see the "Mythology" section) from ''Webcomic/EerieCuties'', which [[LovableSexManiac Blair]] steals, uses irresponsibly, and [[spoiler:accidentally breaks, [[FirstLawOfGenderBending leaving Ace stuck long-term]]]]; much, much later, [[spoiler:kissing Kade after touching Blair causes Ace to transfer the curse to him for a while, until Chloe figures how how to use this effect to break the curse completely]].* ''Webcomic/MagicAndPhysics'' has Shelly, who, oddly for this trope, doesn't seem to remember being a guy ever. However, her brother does, and seemingly the Author and the Writer do too.* In ''Webcomic/{{Jix}}'', one of Remula's personalities, Lamerix creates a device that does this. She tests it out on Lauren, changing her into a guy. Lauren gets mad about being temporarily stuck and uses it on Lamerix, but with no noticeable change (due to no major sexual dimorphism in Ambis and the fact that fur covers their private parts). Lauren convinces Lamerix to temporarily change her husband Paul while she's trying to figure out how to reverse the change.* In ''[[Webcomic/{{Footloose}} Cherry]]'', [[MentorMascot Kirsch]] repeatedly tries to sell [[WholesomeCrossdresser the eponymous Steve]] on the idea of actually becoming a girl. (He's not keen.)* In ''Webcomic/QuantumVibe'', Nicole meets a female {{Sexbot}} named Hitomi who [[http://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=128 starts coming onto her]]. When Nicole wants to back out ("I really don't, y'know, flop that way"), Hitomi simply swaps gender to suit Nicole's inclinations. This simply leaves Nicole aghast. HilariousInHindsight in that she later, in different circumstances, ends up having loads of lesbian sex with a gynoid.* In ''Webcomic/DragonBallMultiverse'', Syd from Universe 6 can switch genders with others upon eye contact. She tries this on U13's Prince Vegeta to even out their power differences, only to find out that Vegeta is still Vegeta, woman or not. The FirstLawOfGenderBending is subverted in that said transformation lasts for only five pages. It didn't stop people from drawing [[http://www.dragonball-multiverse.com/en/strip-51.html a minicomic]] about the possible implications, in the case it was permanent.* In ''Webcomic/GirlInMyDream'', Ji-Hoon gradually becomes a female named Ji-Hyun as he dreams.* ''Webcomic/TheWhiteboard'': After pressing a button with a ShmuckBait warning sign, in the May 22, 2012 strip, Roger is transformed into a woman.* In ''Webcomic/SomewhereDifferent'', protagonist Mark is hit by a truck, and saved from dying by being turned into a girl.* In ''Webcomic/SparklingGenerationValkyrieYuuki'', the title character starts out as a teenage boy, until he watches a "Magical Girl" DVD and Hermod, in the form of a monkey (or marmoset), comes out of his TV and turns him into a valkyrie, a female warrior of Norse mythology. This almost immediately leads to a ManIFeelLikeAWoman page.* ''Webcomic/OneGirlGuyArmy'': The Main character Tait transforms into a blue haired girl with a blue ribbon wrapped around his neck. The other main character Icarus also revealed to have been turned into a girl in the past [[spoiler: Icarus is revealed to be the Amazon princess Amelia who had his male essence forcibly taken out magically by the Amazon Queen who placed her own female essence in place of his own.]] * In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', the "Trans State" is a section of the woods that instantly changes a character's sex.* In [[http://maytiacomic.com/ Mischief in Maytia]], one of the characters gets crushed by a flying saucer and is given a rental body while his real body gets repaired. The rental body is that of a teenage girl.* In [[http://www.calogrenant.com/index.php?id=1/ Calogrenant]], an Arthurian knight with gender dysphoria is transformed into a maiden, and goes on Monty Pythonesque adventures which feature inspirations from the many versions of the legend.* Parodied in ''Webcomic/MurryPurryFreshAndFurry'' when Melvin decides to reboot his webcomic ''Fart Police'' to be a gender-swapping high school comedy.* ''Webcomic/AtArmsLength'' got one when they introduced the first place winner of their character contest. A human from a parellel world appeared in front of Reece and Sheila, and the two used a disguise spell to make him appear as something from their world, only for something unexpected to happen, resulting in the human's gender to be switched in the process.* ''Webcomic/TheDragonDoctors'' has a fair amount of this, starting with [[{{Gendercide}} a valley where a mysterious curse led to all the men becoming women]]; most of the time the issue of having one's physical sex changed is taken fairly seriously. [[http://dragondoctors.dhscomix.com/archives/comic/ch-6-page-13 Most of the time.]]-->'''Greg''': I have no idea how I'd react to that.\\'''Sarin''': Why wonder?\\''*snap!*''\\''*bwoooomp!*''* Cordelia in ''Webcomic/PrincessChroma'' has magic powders that change people's gender. She [[HoistByHisOwnPetard manages to get a face full]] of said powder herself by accident.* ''Webcomic/SwordPrincessAmaltea'' is a story held in a matriachy world, so it's quite a shock when [[spoiler:princess Amaltea and prince Ossian suddenly [[http://natalia.batista.se/spa/comic1.php?page=207 switch genders]] at the end of Chapter VI.]]* In ''[[Webcomic/DHSComix Free Turn]]'', an argument with a potionmaker leaves both Demi and Milo turned into girls; it wears off quickly for Milo, being a mimic, but for Demi it takes a month or so. In ''Loose Change'', Jacques mentions that he uses a coin to guess at the gender of transformed people, but no actual changes of sex are seen. Also, Tricksters throughout the setting often disguise themselves as the opposite sex, but these are just illusions, not "true" transformations.* ''Webcomic/BrunoTheBandit'' spent one story arc as a woman as punishment for trying to steal from the temple of Dyla.* In ''Webcomic/DangerouslyChloe'', Chloe injects Teddy with her blood to cure him of a cold, which has the side effect of turning him first into a copy of her, then into a girl resembling himself as the effect wears off. Later, when Chloe is uncontrollably attacking men, Teddy gets a smaller dose of her blood from Pandora, making him a girl somewhere between the two, and [[spoiler:the effect becomes permanent]] when Kimmy out of curiosity injects him with her own ectoplasm-like ichor.* In ''[[Webcomic/OutOfPlacers Out-Of-Placers]]'' Kassen is turned into a female Yinglet, small scavengers resembling a cross between a rat and a shorebird with a massively skewed gender ratio, making Kass [[GenderRarityValue a hot property]] in a culture whose entire social structure relies on WomenAreWiser because the menfolk all tend to be happy-go-lucky idiots.* In ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'', devils gain new bodies as they rise and fall in power, which tends to involve this. [[spoiler:Vladok]] becomes female when he falls from Ebon rank to Blue, but doesn't seem to care about the gender bender in the least.** This also seems to be the case with the technically sexless angels, whose true appearances are more based on how they feel. White Chain's form is roughly humanoid, but with wings and eyes on her hands and hair. [[spoiler:Juggernaut Star, once stripped of their thorn knight form, looks extremely feminine as well]]. As all angels refer to each other as ''Brothers'', such manifestations are considered heretical.* The premise of ''WebComic/SailorSun'' is that Bay (formerly Brad) was transformed by the producers of the ShowWithinAShow of the same name some time before the series began, in order to [[AnimatedActors make him/her the new star]] of the FanFiction series. Not only couldn't she talk them into reversing it, but just days later she ends up meeting her KidFromTheFuture, Honey - which is also how she discovered that she a) never changes back, and b) is already pregnant after the bender she went on the night after being transformed.* In the Franchise/{{Transformers}} fancomic ''[[http://ty-chou.deviantart.com/gallery/24775136/Bent Bent]]'', Perceptor's newly-invented ray gun ends up turning several Cybertronians into femme-bots. Hilariously, when it happens to Starscream, there's no physical difference but his voice gets a little deeper (according to the other characters).* In ''[[Webcomic/DevilsCake Devil's Cake]]'' [[StalkerWithACrush Zos]][[CrazyJealousGuy hi]] transforms himself into a girl in order to be Kea's new roommate. She does not appreciate this invasion of her space and privacy whatsoever.* In ''Webcomic/GrimTalesFromDownBelow'', [[WesterAnimation/SamuraiJack Aku]] has a [[http://grim.snafu-comics.com/?comic_id=247 female form]] which he uses whenever he feels [[http://grim.snafu-comics.com/?comic_id=248 his daughter needs to talk to a mother figure]].* ''WebComic/IDreamOfAJeanieBottle'' from the same creator as the aforementioned ''Sailor Sun'' series might give the above a run for its money: On top the protagonist Jean/Jeanie, a fan of the classic TV series ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie'' and admirer of said series' titular character, who was [[{{Irony}} forced to take the form of said character after accidentally being turned into a genie]], (ItMakesSenseInContext) there's also a {{running gag}} involving Jean/Jeannie using his/her new found powers to turn ''other men'' into women, if they piss him/her off, including Jean/Jeanie's own best friend [[ButtMonkey Neil]], sometimes temporarily as is luckily the case with Neil, but often he/she doesn't even ''bother'' to turn them back. 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[[folder:Web Original]]* This is a major point of many of the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'' tales, due to them taking place in a LGBI dormitory at the eponymous BoardingSchool.** Several of the main characters are gender bent by their "Exemplar" mutant power, which involves InvoluntaryShapeshifting to match their "BIT" (Body Image Template). A BIT is that person's mental image of a perfect body, which is occasionally the "wrong" gender -- although Exemplar mutations tend to have a side effect of a certain level of acceptance, and many were [[{{Transgender}} transgendered]] to begin with (i.e., the changes fit what they wanted to be all along). Note that a BIT can lead to an intersexed state as well - this is the case with both Phase and Circuit Breaker - or cause a non-human appearance. It should also be noted that [[FirstLawOfGenderBending the First Law]] is in full effect in the Whateley 'verse -- as a rule, it is not possible to undo or really change an Exemplar mutation.** Other than the Exemplar mutants, one main character is changed to a girl by being bonded with a powerful female elf spirit, another due to a poorly worded prank by her little brother, another by a magic sword, and yet another hasn't changed at all but is actually a {{transgender}} girl trying to find a way to transition. Oh, and then there's Hank, who's gender bending the other way.** It should be added that the rate at which the transformations take place can vary greatly, from Tennyo's near-instantaneous self-immolation/transformation, to the half-decade long gradual self-adjustment that Mega-Girl is going through. In between that is Crimson Comet (three days), Phase (about a week), Shadowdancer (two months of agonizing illness), Fey (six months of slow changes followed by a sudden, unpleasant burst of alterations after her first major use of her powers), Chaka (about a year, and requiring surgical intervention to correct her hips half-way through), and Beltane (a couple of years of self-modification). And that's not counting [[SexShifter shapeshifters]] like Jimmy T., who can voluntarily change form in a short period, or those who transform involuntarily more or less instantaneously at varying times, such as Reach, Chimera, Fling, or Heyoka.* In ''TakeALemon'' (seen [[http://www.takealemon.com/ here]]), Marshall Steen wakes up one day as Marsha. S/he determines that it was caused by a scientific experiment gone awry and then decides not to change back for a few months, just to prove that s/he can cope with the situation. [[spoiler: It turns out she wasn't actually transformed, she'd just been give the memories of her male counterpart from an alternate dimension.]]* The plot of ''[[http://transplantedlife.com Transplanted Life]]''. In fact, in that story, the only way a mind-transfer works is between genders.* Most of the characters in ''Blog/TheTradingPost'', one of whose writers is also behind Transplanted Life.* [[http://www.fictionmania.tv/enter.html FictionMania]] (NSFW) is a ''massive'' archive specializing in gender bending stories of all kinds. The site isn't limited to this trope, however, as it also accepts RealLife (or VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory) stories of [[{{Transgender}} sexual reassignment and transitioning]], [[{{Crossdresser}} Crossdressing]], and EasySexChange fiction.* [[http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/ BigCloset]] is another large site hosting GenderBender fiction, but differs from [=FictionMania=] in that most stories are [[NotSafeForWork Safe For Work]]. Many stories are novel-length, and the writing quality is generally better.* The ''Satyri'' series (and possible future webcomic) by Website/DeviantArt artist Creator/DPRagan is about a series of virgin males who are cursed by a group of [[HornyDevils succubi]], either by being pulled into hell and having their soul infected with a fragment of a succubus' soul, or by using a cursed item (usually bodywash) that causes their [[BodyHorror skin to melt off]], revealing their new, permanent form. The face is the last part to melt off -- if the victim doesn't give in to the horrible uncontrollable itching as their skin bubbles and melts at the edges the face will regenerate their human body over a few weeks of constant torture; the gender bending, however, is permanent. If they don't manage to keep their hands away (and it's not common knowledge to do so, most people don't last more than a few seconds), or if they managed to get pulled into hell for the personal treatment by [[TheVirus another succubus]], they are now permanently stuck as a Satyri -- a vaguely Satyr-like half-Succubus. Satyri traits include a tail, horns, elflike ears, Ungulate hooves (think "[[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft Draenei]]"), inhuman (yellow iris on black) eyes, unnaturally colored ''latex'' skin and hair (red, blue, and "bubblegum" being the most common), and an enforced lack of [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl nudity taboo]]. Wings are also common, especially with Satyri who have completely "went native" and turned into outright Succubi.* Website/DeviantArt in general has entire communities surrounding this trope. Just put "TG" into the search engine and enjoy.* Website/{{Cleverbot}} at times will turn you into the opposite gender (obviously in a pretend role-playing way) typically just for its own amusement or if you simply just ask it to. Sometimes it will even get oddly specific and turn you into things like a cheerleader, a maid, a school girl, an anime girl, etc.* In the ''WebOriginal/{{Paradise}}'' setting, human beings are randomly, permanently changed into {{Funny Animal}}s (though the change is InvisibleToNormals). A small percentage of Changed also change their gender. Given the WishFulfillment nature of the setting, the number of gender-Changed who appear within stories is somewhat disproportional to the amount that exist setting-wide.* Deconstructed rather viciously in ''[[http://fav.me/d2e36gj Lola]]''. Some random guy--[[AuthorAvatar who happens to read GenderBender porn]]--is turned into a hot chick by [[TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday a Mysterious Website That Wasn't There Yesterday]]. [[AvertedTrope He]] [[SecondLawOfGenderBending hates it]], on account of the trouble being someone who doesn't, y'know, legally exist. And being objectified by men. The story ends with [[spoiler:the implication that they're going to end up shipped off to some mysterious government facility for a nonspecified fate.]]* ''The Vulvoid Transformation'' is a story about evil panties that turn their hosts into girls and make them give birth to more evil panties. No, really.* ''AHDotComTheCreepyTeenYears'' plays with this trope a lot. Ynnead tends to switch genders between episodes.* ''[[http://castle.midnightaurora.com/mainpage.php?siteID=1&itemID=Okashina_Futari.php Okashina Futari]]'' is a story of two siblings, a boy named Ayumi and a girl named Satori, who have the ability to change each other's gender [[EmpathicShapeshifter (which cannot be done onto themselves) merely by wishing it]]. As expected in most gender-bending, the boy-to-girl transformation is more frequent. They can also change the other's clothing, including undergarments, but they can't change the gender and not change the clothing, nor can they change the clothing into garments worn by the other's gender (e.g. Ayumi as a girl wearing a man's suit).* WebVideo/{{Benzaie}} of ''Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses'' winds up being turned into a woman [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/bt/benzaie/top-5/31722-top-5-brutal-murder-attempts-in-jem in this video]] as a side effect of watching ''WesternAnimation/JemAndTheHolograms'' too much.* [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]] becomes the teenage ValleyGirl "Spoonette" after he's banished to a universe based on the game [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2010/02/21/party-mania-review/ "Party Mania"]] (which, oddly enough, is already home to [[GenderFlip gender flipped]] versions of WebVideo/{{Benzaie}} and [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall 90's Kid]]).* The premise of ''Literature/TheFiniteLifeOfADatingSimHeroine'', which is a WebSerialNovel about a boy who gets sent into a DatingSim and forced into the body of the game's heroine.* In ''Roleplay/EquestriaChronicles'', transgender transformation pins exist. However, they've only been shown to last a couple of weeks at the most; hourly transformations are more common.* In one entry of the blog ''[[http://www.jackfrombkln.com/gender-bender-my-day-as-a-woman/ F*cking in Brooklyn]]'', the writer imagines himself [[FreakyFridayFlip swapping bodies]] with a glamorous lady friend for a day. Unlike many other examples, he ultimately concludes that that the human experience is so widely varied that it would be impossible to know what it is to "be a woman", even after a lifetime of living as one. * In ''Literature/ChakonaSpace'' skunktaurs, which were a competing project to the [[{{Hermaphrodite}} chakats']] development, can switch between male and female. They're born male then change to female for the first time at puberty and can trigger the change at will from then on.* ''[[http://leawildersen.blogspot.com/ Lea Wilderson]]'' appears to be the blog of a man named Lee Wilderson who turns into a woman. * [[Wiki/SCPFoundation SCP]]-[[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-113 113]], a piece of jasper that turns anything with sex chromosomes that touches it into the opposite gender. Although, the change is rather [[PainfulTransformation painful]], there is a 25% chance of the subject's [[GroinAttack genitals being obliterated]] and multiple exposures may cause [DATA EXPUNGED].** The Foundation also has a character named Agent Diogenes, who has been exposed to it so much that they either now have no gender, or are both genders. In either case, they can't remember which gender they originally were.** The [[BodySurf Body Surfing]] Dr. Bright has inhabited a number of female hosts. * ''Roleplay/YouHaveBecomeYourAvatar'': If the user is the opposite sex as their Avatar, this will happen to them. In a female-to-male example, Ichigo was transformed into [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Deidara]].* In ''Roleplay/UnnaturalSelection'', the [=AIs=] can do this with body modifications. However, none of the main characters do so... except in the spin-off ''[[Roleplay/AsteroidQuest Polokoa Quest]]'', where Rokolo's Chief chose to switch from male to female.* From ''Blog/ElChiguireBipolar'': [[http://www.elchiguirebipolar.net/26-06-2015/15770/ "After the National Electoral Council's requirement of at least 40% women candidates, Henry Ramos Allup changes sex."]]* Given that the 2014 ''WebVideo/D20Live'' event featured the infamous TabletopGame/TombOfHorrors, this ended up happening, to both the team's newfound pet-polymorphed-gargoyle-turned-kitten and the team's rogue.* The Chinese webseries ''Go Princess Go'' combines this with FishOutOfTemporalWater. A playboy tries to save a woman from drowning, but is knocked unconscious with a kick to the head and wakes up as a princess in ancient China. She tries to make the most of his situation by plotting the downfall of her husband for her own purposes, but ultimately has to deal with her new life over time.* In ''Literature/MagicalGirlPolicy'', Rob is revealed to be Spirit Guard Serenity, and will be permanently transformed into a girl upon transforming the first time.* During the Magical Princess arc of WebVideo/MastersOfTheMetaverse this occasionally happens to Magical Prince Chad after he gains the Magical Power of Friendship.* Creator/{{Rachel Bloom}}'s parody of Music/{{Beyonce}}'s "If I Were a Boy," in which the title phrase is interpreted as "if I ''became'' a boy," to which the singer reacts not unlike [[Literature/TheMetamorphosis Gregor Samsa]].[[/folder]]

[[folder:Western Animation]]* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': In the episode "Oh, Brother", Dexter gets tired of Dee Dee's antics and uses one of his inventions to travel to an alternate universe where he has an older brother instead of an older sister. Unfortunately, Dexter discovers that "Dudey" is an obnoxious JerkJock [[ParentalFavoritism whom his parents favor over him]] and who is even more destructive than Dee Dee.* ''WesternAnimation/LloydInSpace'' hangs an entire episode on a one-shot who's "Neither Boy or Girl" and of a species that chooses its own gender at the age of thirteen. They do at the end of the episode, however they look no different from before. But we'll never know which gender they chose.* In ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool'' episode "Girls Behaving Oddly," Kuzco and Kronk use one of Yzma's potions to turn themselves into girls so that [[GenderBenderFriendship they can befriend Malina]], whose "girlfriends" have abandoned her.* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'', "Witch-ay Woman", a fortune teller tries to teach Johnny a lesson in showing women respect by turning him into one. [[spoiler: He may or may not have only been mesmerised into thinking he was a woman]]* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/OzzyAndDrix'', when Ozzy accidentally ends up in the body of a girl instead of his usual (for the TV show) human host Hector, Ozzy's own sex starts changing. He very nearly becomes completely female, but does not lose his beard.* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'':** "Operation: F.U.T.U.R.E." has a young misandric lass who gets a "Girlifyier" gun from her alternate future self. Cue the dystopian alternate future, where Numbuh Four [[spoiler:(minus his hand)]] is the only adult male left. He becomes the leader of the Boys Next Door; with the help of Numbuh Three's granddaughter develops an "Boyifyier", and a sex-swapping battle ensues. [[spoiler:He manages to evade this future by going back in time and changing things]].** "Operation: C.A.R.A.M.E.L.", where Numbuh Five's candy-hunting rival, Heinrich von Marzipan, [[spoiler:turns out to have once been a girl, who was transformed an ugly boy through some magic caramels which took away ''her beauty'']]. And this is the reason he has such a big grudge against Abby.* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'':** In "The Boy Who Would Be Queen," Timmy becomes a girl after he mocks Wanda's idea of wishing to turn into one (to find the perfect gift for Trixie Tang), noting that he did say "I wish" and "girl." This does allow him to think like a normal girl; after some humorous jabs at him by his godparents, Timmy gets back at them by wishing they switched genders, becoming Cosma and Wando.** In "The Good Old Days!" Timmy wishes himself, his grandfather, Cosmo and Wanda into a 1930s style cartoon where WouldntHitAGirl is a law of the universe. He therefore makes an additional wish that the Vicky analogue was a boy so he can defeat "him".** It's never been revealed how Timmy's parents, who dressed as each other for the HalloweenEpisode, were affected by Timmy's "Real and Scary" wish. Apparently, it wasn't traumatic for them, as they dressed as each other again in "Take and Fake".** In "Dadlantis", Chloe's wish turns her and Timmy into mermaids, with Timmy becoming female in the process.* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', "Attack of the Killer Garage Sale", there is a very brief scene (literally just a second) where Technus turns Danny into a blonde supermodel with a ghostly remote control.* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'':** In one episode, an invention turns Johnny into a hot girl for about 5 seconds, then overloads and turns him into a hulking female monster. She turns back to normal a few seconds later.** In a later episode, an invention turns Susan and Mary purple, then huge headed, then male. They revert after a while, but it was AllJustADream anyway.** Another episode has Johnny and Dukey turn into female rollerbladers to win a roller derby.* The last episode of ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' has Sonic and Tails transported into various fairy tales. In the first one they visit, they're Hansel and Nettle (Gretel). Sonic is Hansel... and Tails is Nettle. Disturbingly, four-year-old Tails gets boobs as a girl. He even lifts up his dress to verify it: "I'm a girl!"* Bender from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' blurs the line between the "already ill-defined robot sexes" more than once:** In "Raging Bender", he becomes a fighter for the Ultimate Robot Fighting league, and is first billed as "Bender The Offender"; as his popularity falls, however, he's forced to play the GorgeousGeorge {{Heel}} role of "The Gender Bender", dressed in a blonde wig and pink tutu.** In "Bend Her", Bender poses as a fembot to compete in the Olympic games, wins several gold medals, then has to have a sex change in order to pass the gender verification test. As the fembot "Coilette," Bender begins a relationship with the robot actor Calculon -- planning initially to marry and divorce him so she can take half his stuff. However, it turns out that Calculon is genuinely in love with Coilette, and prepared to give up acting to be with her. In the end, the crew helps Bender fake Coilette's death at the wedding so he can undo the sex change without hurting Calculon more than necessary. ** "Neutopia" brings the entire Planet Express crew to a planet where gender is unknown, and an alien swaps their sexes. Leela and Amy do not enjoy being male, while Fry, Bender, and the other men-turned-women find the experience fun. And in a CallBack, Bender's female form is Coilette.** In "Prisoner of Benda", Amy and Professor Farnsworth use an AppliedPhlebotinum device to voluntarily [[FreakyFridayFlip switch bodies]] (she wants to binge eat without consequences, he wants to be young again). Once they try to switch back, however, they discover that the machine cannot be used on the same two people twice... leading to a barrage of body swapping [[HilarityEnsues hilarity]] that includes (but isn't limited to) Bender inhabiting Amy, Leela switching into the Professor's body, and Amy switching with Hermes. * In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' episode "Out of the Past", [[spoiler:it turns out Ra's Al Ghul has [[GrandTheftMe taken over his daughter's body]]]], which is even more disturbing than it sounds. Ra's can speak with his Ra's voice, even though he has the body of a woman... the transition is outright creepy. Furthermore, Ra's still acts in a very effeminate manner, despite the voice. Remarking on the situation:-->'''Terry:''' Lady, that is the sickest thing I've ever seen. You're creeping me out!\\'''Bruce:''' You? She ''kissed'' me.* In ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats'', the evil Mumm-Ra has transformed into a female on at least four separate occasions:** In "The Garden of Delights", Mumm-Ra assumes the form of a faerie queen to lure Tygra into a trap.** In "The Mask of the Gorgon", he turns into Nada of the Warrior Maidens.** In "The Queen of Eight Legs", Mumm-Ra turns into a tiny female fairy called Diamondfly.** In "The Astral Prison", Mumm-Ra transforms into the Nether Witch, which is implied to be an alternate identity he regularly assumes.* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAndHisAmazingFriends'': In "Seven Little Superheroes," the Chameleon, a male villain, displays his shapeshifting powers by assuming the forms of female heroes Shanna The Jungle Queen and Firestar (as well as several male characters.)* Hogatha in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' switches genders when she becomes a Smurf in "The Fake Smurf".* ''WesternAnimation/TUFFPuppy'' has [[ShapeShifter The Chameleon]], who wears an AppliedPhlebotinum suit which allows him to transform into anything, including into a woman [[spoiler: at least three times, once as Bunny the Real Estate Agent and again as [=FiFi=] Oui Oui, and as the [[RecurringExtra little chimpmunk girl]].]]* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'', season 2, episode 10, Evangelyne and Amalia temporarily turn male thanks to a magic potion to be able to play Gowbbowl.* The opening to an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' had Arthur wondering how life would be easier if people could turn into other people should the need arise. The Imagine Spot shows Arthur about to be caught by his mother for making D.W. mad, so he transforms into his ''grandmother'' and confuses his mom.* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'':** Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable once [[FreakyFridayFlip swapped bodies]]. However, the only time the fact they don't have the same gender affected the episode was when Kim forgot which bathroom at school "Ron" was supposed to get in.** It's never been stated how far Camille Leon can go while shapeshifting into males.* Towards the end of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' ''WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror'' episode "Stop the World, I Wanna Goof Off", while Lisa was messing with a reality changing watch; Homer, Bart, Marge and Maggie are briefly gender bent.** At the end of the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E2CapeFeare Cape Feare]]", it's shown that Grampa apparently needs to take a type of medication to prevent this from happening to him.* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':** In the episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E5MagicDuel Magic Duel]]". Twilight Sparkle briefly changes Applejack from a mare to a stallion. [[spoiler:It turns out her entire magic display was fake and it was really Applejack's brother Big Macintosh [[RingerPloy pretending to be a genderbent version of her]]]].** Possibly in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E23InspirationManifestation Inspiration Manifestation]]", depending on whether Rarity ''replaced'' that mariachi pony with Octavia, or ''turned him into her''. [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse The episode doesn't really explain what happened there.]]* On one episode of ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'', [[spoiler:Aku assumes the form of female warrior Ikra, to trick Jack into leading him to a way back to the past, so as to destroy it.]]* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' had an episode parodying ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' where the Nerd finds a spring like the spring of drowned girl at Jusenkyou. He jumps in imagining all the advantages of being a sexy girl. Unfortunately it turned out that the girl who drowned there was fat, gassy and had a club foot, so you can imagine the pay off.* In the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "Stan Goes on the Pill" Stan turns into a woman after taking an experimental pill that was supposed to make it easier for him to listen to women. The female doctor giving him the pill told him that he was only supposed to take half and naturally he didn't listen.* The premise of ''WesternAnimation/PennZeroPartTimeHero'' involves a combination of [[BodySnatcher body snatching]] and {{shapeshifting}}, so naturally the main cast occasionally end up getting genderbent.** In "The Princess Most Fair" Penn is the eponymous princess, Sashi is a knight, Boone is a fairy godmother, Rippen is a sorceress, and Larry is a female magic mirror. While Sashi and Rippen's genderbent forms both look like entirely different people, Boone and Penn just look like female versions of their original selves.** In "Rip-Penn", Boone is a housemaid while Sashi is a male chemist. Both forms are very similar to their regular ones, with the only major difference being their clothing and hair.* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' episode "[[Recap/TheLoudHouseS1E23OneOfTheBoysATattlersTale One of the Boys]]", Lincoln enters an AlternateUniverse where his sisters are brothers. Later on, he briefly becomes a girl named Linka (in which the brothers are a ''[[BigBrotherInstinct whole lot]]'' nicer to).* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode "The Job" involved Richard's reality-warping shockwaves hitting the other Wattersons and Larry, who switch genders at one point,** A similar occurrence happens in the first part of ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'''s "Weirdmageddon" finale to Gideon and Ghost Eyes when they go through weirdness bubbles.* There was an episode of ''WesternAnimation/PurnoDePurno'' where the eponymous character drank a potion that changed him into a girl. He remains a girl for the remaining duration of the episode, where he goes to a tent in a Middle Eastern desert as a vacation spot.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Real Life]]* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-alpha-reductase_deficiency 5-alpha-reductase deficiency]] (5-ARD), known crudely as "Guevedoche" ("Balls at twelve") in the Dominican Republic and simply "Kwolu-aatmwol" ("female thing transforming into a male thing") in Papua New Guinea, in which a genetic male is born with what appears to be female genitalia under casual scrutiny, only to "turn" male when they hit puberty. This is a rare but inheritable genetic disorder, seldom seen outside the above-mentioned places. Allegedly, because it is comparatively common in small, highly insular communities, most of those affected adjust with surprising ease.* Meet [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolbachia Wolbachia]], a bacteria that primarily affects arthropods (insects, arachnids, and other bugs). It can, very rarely, turn infected males into completely fertile females. (More commonly, it turns them into infertile pseudo-females, and even more commonly it just kills them).* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequential_hermaphroditism Some fish]] start out as male then change gender to female if the female dies. Others do the opposite.* There have been [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1267691/Gianni-gender-bending-rooster-starts-lay-eggs.html cases]] of [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1080049/Pictured-The-sex-swap-chicken-called-Georgina-turned-cockerel-named-George.html chickens changing sex]].* There are also documented cases of peahens changing into peacocks.* Frogs and other amphibians are extremely susceptible to hormonal changes and can undergo severe physical changes that appear just weird for vetrebrates. [[http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2009/12/03/ottawa-frogs-sex-change-atrazine.html One study]] shows that the popular herbicide atrazine can change male frogs to female. ** This one was a major plot point in ''Film/JurassicPark''.* Cross-gender hormones and sex reassignment surgery can make someone appear to be the opposite sex. However, it is primarily a cosmetic change, as the person's genitals will not function, reproductively, after the surgery.* Some reptile species may hatch as either male or female depending on their incubation temperature, with moderate temperatures producing females and both higher and lower temperatures producing males.[[/folder]]----